Webrings

What webrings are

Webrings are a collection of websites that have organized themselves into a circle. Each site in the ring displays a webring navigator that links it to the next site in the ring. The whole point of a webring is to share traffic with the owners of other sites in the ring.

For example, if a person is interested in basketball, they could visit every single site in the basketball webring without ever having to go back to a search engine. Webrings are usually free services that can be added to your website.

Finding webrings

The best place to find what types of webrings are available is a http://www.webring.org/. Webring.org anchors thousands of webrings. They have an easy to navigate directory where you can browse the available webrings by topic. This is a free service as well.

Once you find a webring you think is appropriate and relates to your site, take some time navigating through the ring. Compare your website to the ones you find in the webring. You will want to join webrings that have many other sites registered at the ring because they are the ones that are receiving most of the traffic.

Utilizing webrings

After you have navigated through a webring you like and that relates to your site, then you want to apply for membership to that ring. The process is simple. You only need to fill out the online application form. Your application will be reviewed to make sure that you site is appropriate to the ring (this is why you want to do your own research on the ring ahead of time, so you won't get rejected).

If you accepted then you will receive some source code (HTML) that represents the navigator for the webring, which you need to add to your website. Some webrings are strict and insist that the navigator be on the front page of member websites. Once you've done that, you will be added into the ring within a few days, and you should start receiving traffic right away.

Online websites and resources

http://www.webring.org/