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Of course what you count as features depends on who you want to use your theme. One theme can't please all, even though you can try. To find more things that you can do with your theme to get more downloads, you can read this article. It goes into more reasons why a person would choose one theme over another and it's a good article to read before you even start your theme.
So I get done with my theme and I am faced with the issue of getting people to download it. I added some features that would draw bloggers to it, but I still had to get people to the site in the first place to even know that the theme exists. I did a search on "promoting wordpress theme" and came up with how and where to promote a Wordpress theme which gave me a starting point.
A note on Weblogstoolscollection. They tend to frown on sponsered themes. My theme has two links, one to this site and one to my other blog. Originally the theme said "Sponsered by Digital Products Review." But knowing that this sites feed shows in every Wordpress dashboard, I wanted my theme listed there. So instead, I wrote a post about the theme at that blog and made it the themes description page, at least from the footer of the blog. And my theme went live on Weblog Tools Collection today.
Another note about links. This theme boosts three sites backlinks. This one and Digital Products Review from the footer of the theme. The theme's home is actually at WP23.com, a blog I started at the last minute just to spread the link love out to another blog whose subject will be Wordpress and which will host all of my upcoming Wordpress themes, plugins, hacks, and tips. I wanted the most mileage I could get out of this theme.
The article above only listed a few places to submit this theme. The big places, but still only a percentage of places to submit your Wordpress theme. I turned to my old friend Google to find some more and gave myself this week's project in the process. Here are the queries:
You could probably think of a few more, but these gave me plenty of options. Not everyone looks at the feeds in their Wordpress dashboard. I didn't until a few months ago. So hit some of these sites to because you will get the theme hunters coming directly from Google.
I hope this helps some theme developers. Look for another post like this as I learn more about this process.