You must handle the skill, if you want to adopt this kind of promotion method. If you want to promote by the designing free template, you have to possess the perfect design level; you need to handle the skill for software developing, if you want to promote your shopping cart by developing the software plug-ins.

First of all, let’s discuss how to promote the free template. Many people would like to use the free open-source shopping cart software, for example, Zen-cart, osCommerce，Magento，Prestashop，Opencart, etc. If you know how to design the template yourself, and you have enough time, you can use it as a method for promoting yourself. The template you designed must be criterion and beauty and give others a good impression. You must mark the designer and the links in the bottom of the finished template. For example,“Designed by IECSP.COM”，add this words to the links leading to you domain name. Meanwhile, you’d better write the information about the author at the Meta of the website. The more your template is popular, and is installed, the more you can get backlinks. Howevery, some user of shopping cart software will delete the author links of the bottom, which cann’t be controlled. If this happend, you have to accept this reality.

Besides the shopping cart software template, wordpress blog software is also very popular now. Designing the beautiful wordpress template is better than designing the shopping cart template, for you can receive more installing quantity. The people using blog will more respect the designer, they will reserve more links from the designer. The main reason is that the bottom links of blog have no any influence for the owner, but the shopping cart is in the different situation.

Next, let’s talk about the development of plug-in. The development of plug-in is the same purpose of designing free template, add the links of your own shopping cart in plug-in. The sort of the plug-in is various, simple and complex, your purpose is to develop a popular plug-in. Besides the various open-source free shopping cart system, you can still develop the plug-in for wordpress. The plug-in you developed must be perfect and undivided, not excessive. Usually speaking, one good plug-in can attract many users. Developing the plug-in is different from designing free template. You need to not only modify and consummate it for long time, but also update along with the main software, and answer the questions from the users.

No matter designing the free shopping cart template or developing the software plug-in, you need to do a lot of work, meanwhile, you can get the return. If you don’t want to make the AD in Google AdWords, you must get the traffic by labor, which is more significant and lasting than the direct charging Ad.No pain no gain.