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Offline strategies for Link Popularity depend on several off-page factors that are extremely important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). These off-page factors have a directly proportional relationship with the rankings. Search Engines and the SEO experts across the world are now accepting the importance of innovative and creative offline strategies. We observe a phenomenal increase in the popularity of the Link building- Process over the time. Links are back bone for a solid website. Search Engines have a close affinity with the links. Link-Building-Process evolved as an almost necessary tactics of the web promotion.

The number and quality of the links pointing to any website become the determining factors for the link Popularity in case of a particular website. Search Engines now have distaste for artificially created links. Links that are useless for the purpose of search engine listings are no less than crap. Creating links in its most simple sense looks quite easy but generating genuine link popularity in present context would require an SEO expert to handle the task. Concepts like Link Farms and the Huge Link Exchange Programs have no more relevance today and are becoming outdated very fast. Search Engines are more likely to boot-out such out-fashioned Link related strategies.

New concepts evolved during past year and these are gaining importance among the web professionals. Search engines now prefer links from the authoritative, reliable, and related sites instead of the previously popular Bulk Link Listings. Search engines now have started giving preference to the Links from the websites that have similar themes and focus. SEO professional now require more creativity in carving out successful strategies for link building in genuine and authorized manner keeping the search engine algorithms and guidelines in focus.

Obtaining a link from an authoritative website is a matter of added advantage. Apart from the Link Popularity, a link from an authoritative website provides an additional visibility. This process of link building invites webmasters to bring in a system of establishing the Reciprocal Links for a particular website.

We are also observing a new wave of One-Way-Link at the same time. SEO experts have devised several innovative methods for creating such one-way-links from heavy traffic websites. Some of the most common strategies to build one-way-links include submission of websites to the internet directories, writing pertinent and interesting quality articles, and distributing the website link all over the internet.

The only limitation of this one-way-link strategy is the conditional benefit related to the link management. It makes it mandatory for both the websites to have each other’s link.

A week ago, I implemented a complete redesign of my directory. My team and I worked about 2-3 months at it, and I must say I am more than satisfied by the result. There is a clean design, many more features, and big chances in our TOS. We are becoming much more then a directory.

Not only we offer more services, like web design, wordpress customization, and so on, but we are also filtering our database and delete sites that don’t comply with our new submission policy. We wish to maintain our web portal as clean as possible, containing only quality links. Also, I would like to apologize to some web masters that have submitted sites that don’t comply with our submission rules. I am sorry that we can not accept your sites, as this is how our policy works.

Also, we have launched the theme browser. You can now download, preview and upload any themes, as long as you respect the TOS. We wish to become the best online resource related to wordpress themes, and we know we have a long way to go. I encourage all web designers to submit their themes, it’s free and it only takes a second.

Our review fee for sites that want to become featured has increased too, but the fee is just a small way for you to say “Thank you” for this wonderful resource that we are trying to bring you. Nobody is trying to get rich here, all our gathered resources go back into our directory. I want to thank all our customers for choosing our services, we are doing our best for you.

Winter is coming, but My Green Corner is as green as ever.

Cheers