Building a webring

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Valley, Sep 16, 2007.

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    Any of you guys or dolls ever built a webring?
    Was it any good for traffic and worth the effort?
     
    Valley, Sep 16, 2007 IP
  2. mithil

    mithil Peon

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    BTW, What is a web ring ??
     
    mithil, Sep 16, 2007 IP
  3. toby

    toby Notable Member

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    you mean links site to one another within your own sites?
    well if the sites are related, it's good for SEO but if it's unrelated, that's link farm, which you should stay clear of it.
     
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    thsadmin Notable Member

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    Yup I made a few with WebRing.com the original and best for Hosted WebRings, they can be OK, good for first starting out and building traffic.

    The big ugly javascript I didn't like, where the webring code has to be displayed on pages in WebRing, maybe if they made a small widget instead then it would be better to use.

    The traffic was OK and for SEO purposes again was OK, maybe I should go and have a look at my old ones as they'd have a good PR by now, the effort to maintain several webrings can be a large choir in itself and if not maintained you'll find yourself bogged down with email and PMs (in webring profile).

    Worth a look into but maybe a thing of the past, as web 2.0 is now making WebRings look like (a thing of the) 1990s.
     
    thsadmin, Sep 17, 2007 IP
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    these webrings confuse me
     
    funk, Sep 17, 2007 IP
  6. unitec

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    I don't think that webrings are a good solutions.
    My experiences are negative, it seems that they get a penalty from SEs.

    I joined BlogRush. This is a community where you display links to theme related blogs on your blog and vice versa.
    You'll get as much link exposures as links to other blogs will be shown on your site.
    E.g. when your blog has 100 link exposures you'll get 100 links from other theme related blogs to your site.
    When new members sign up through your referral link you'll also earn traffic from their blogs.

    You'll also earn links from referrals up to the 10th level.

    You can sign up with all the blogs yo have and decided by a filter to which of your blogs you'll get the links.
     
    unitec, Sep 17, 2007 IP
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    Hi thsAdmin,
    Can you please give some information as why it becoming old because of Web2.0?
     
    Awanish, Sep 17, 2007 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    i dont believe web ring can help the members of the ring
     
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  9. Valley

    Valley Peon

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    Hi Trich.
    The idea is for product X there are lot of sites, generally home spawned. Maybe I am 2 years ahead but I envisage a rapid increase of people building their own sites, and adding affilate etc , generally just for fun.
    Thus wanted to connect up some of these sites, generally home grown, and in the process generate more traffic.
    The scripts yes are a pain and I must c.onfess it took three attempts to get it right, but now it can just be copied and pasted into a online sitebuilder.
    So, to hell with search engines, I wanted real traffic
     
    Valley, Sep 17, 2007 IP