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MyGreenCorner.com has recently changed the submission options. Due submission of large amounts of low quality sites, we have decided to ask for a submission fee for any commercial site that wants to join our family. There is still a free option, but this is addressed solely to educational/governmental/nonprofit sites. Please note that this submission fee does not guarantee the approval of your site. This payment represents the tax for reviewing your site. Please note we will refund your payment if your site will not be approved, but only if it doesn’t break the submission rules.

Also, although some of the plans state that your link is permanent, we will review your link each year, to ensure that your site still complies with our quality terms. If your sites fails to do so, it will be removed with no prior notification. In the spirit of this idea, we have removed a lot of low quality sites from our directory in the past months, keeping only the cream, the best of the best.

Please note that we are trying to maintain a good collection of links, that is why we have adopted all this rules. We believe that this will satisfy both our visitors (by providing the best relevant sites out there) and our subscribers (by offering them a place in one of the most exquisite collections out there).

Now, to move on other things. About the recent post on article directories, I have tried to raise attention both on Google:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=3734996837f96e4a&hl=en

and webmaster forums:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1675032

but with little success. It seems that this topic interests little/none. Google seems to give more attention on doodles or Google Buzz release, and webmasters comply in the obscurity of their profiles and enjoy the possibility of not having any opinion.

“Lovers day” came (it was also my birthday!) and went. Best wishes to all lovers out there.

Vancouver is up, and it’s bloody already. I address my sincere thoughts to the family of Nomar Kumaritashvili.

Until next time,

Bbye

Just some thoughts of mine…

The new year has come (with a PR update as well). First, change the footer of your sites from Copyright 2009 to 2010. Next, get in touch with the news of this year. See latest movies. See Avatar at iMax. A little birdie told me big things will take place. If you want to have success in 2010, try to fit within the events that will happen. Ask your friends about their expectations. Drink beer with your guys (shop with your girls). Talk with your family. Love your closest.  Kiss your soul mate. Set your goals. Plan to work. Work. Start your engines. Turn on the volume. Say no to war. Be better. Be kind. Love nature. Be green. 2010, here we come, embrace us.

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all our customers, collaborators and teammates that have interacted within our small and nice community. The following year MyGreenCorner.com will focus more and more on maintaining and improving the quality of our listings and categories, as well as to our site overall. I would also like to thank to all webmasters that have submitted their sites. I want to assure you  that your listings will be carefully reviewed and taken into consideration, if they comply with our submission rules.

Although the crisis has hit hard this year, I hope Santa is richer then ever. I have big plans for the following year and I am pretty sure all of you have, so I wish you good luck with your businesses.

I will also like to use this opportunity to say Happy New Year!

Hoping all the best for you in 2010,

Dugu & co.

I haven’t written for quite a while to MGC blog. Most of the time, I’ve been very busy with my research. Right now, I am involved in a project at Percro Laboratory which is based in Pisa and belongs to Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. My assignment is to compute the inverse kinematics for a virtual hand in XVR. Pretty cool, huh?

Anyway, lets move down to our business. Things are moving very fast these days in web industry, though. I always take 2-3 hours/day to manage my sites. Over the last couple of years, I’ve learn a lot in web marketing. I will now give 5 tips that I always have in my mind when optimizing my sites:

1. Be special. Don’t do the same thing that has been done by other 100 people. Maybe at the beginning it was a good idea, but at the moment you are trying it, it’s most probably just a waste of time. Instead, do something different. Try something new. Be prepared to try original things and be flexible so that you can deal with them.

2. Be fast. That means you have to put speed not only into your application, but into your marketing efforts. Otherwise, someone better will steal your idea place it on the market in front of you.

3. Work. Nothing comes out without good hard working. If you are not prepared to put time and nerves in your site, it will most probably fail.

4. Invest. Don’t be afraid to invest some of your profit back into your production tool. If you are keeping your site intact, you will be outplayed. Look at this guy. Imagine that a few years ago, he was one of the leaders in his market. Now he is resting in peace at 3-4%. He didn’t invest.

5. Be good. When you are good and you know in your soul that you are good, you gain more work power and feel much better overall. You have self-respect and you respect others. It may seem nonsense words to you, but on internet, a lot of crap is spreading from tenebrous webmasters which have no shame. Various tricks and schemes that in the end help visitors to loose their money are invented each day. But good webmasters that prove ambition and honesty will always be rewarded in long term.

I hope these advices help someone, somewhere.

As the recent updates to our theme viewer have been completed, these must reflect in your themes also. Our theme viewer is now GPL 3.0 compliant. That means that all themes that contain a CC2.5 license must be updated to reflect our changes.

One more point that has changed is the fact that all the themes must offer only one link in their footer, to the designers site only. We have decided to adopt this because we have been notified by wordpress.org (cite: “your site distributes themes with spam links in them and themes with licensing terms that are not compatible with the GPL.” - themes@wordpress.org - Joseph, theme editor).

That is why we are asking you that by 25th of August, to update your themes accordingly. We have also sent a newspaper to reflect our new position.

All the themes that fail to comply with this will be deleted. Thank you for your understanding.