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Steve83
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Apr-02 21:12
When I first started my site 6 months ago joining a webring sounded like a good idea to attract some traffic. I joined up and got quite a few visitors (in proportion to other routes), this was in the days when if I got 20 people a day I was pleased.
6 months on however, I'm getting 6000 visitors a month and currently increasing by 50% a month. I looked at the stats for the webring recently and saw that although I delivered over 200 click throughs over 8 weeks I got about 25 in return.
I generated the third highest amount of delivered but received the third lowest - out of a ring of 25 odd sites. The two sites that received the most just happen to be owned by the ring owner and deliver only a little more than me.
Wondering whether to leave the ring?, I now have affilliate banners that I would prefer my visitors to leave from.
I know I've probably answered my own question! but I was wondering whether webrings can be manipulated by the owner to ensure their sites get maximum hits and possible competitors get the least?
Also, thought it may be useful for others new webmasters who are considering using webrings as a traffic source.
I'd be interested to see what views people have on webrings.
[ Message was edited by: Steve83 04/02/2003 03:19 pm ]
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colorspots
Joined: Jul 17, 2000
# Posts: 245
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Posted: 2003-Apr-03 19:18
I would create my own webring. That way you can get the traffic and link benefits of being the owner of a webring. Secondly I don't know that you want to send off the hard earned visitors you have aquired.
[ Message was edited by: colorspots 04/03/2003 01:19 pm ]
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pjnunn777
Joined: Jul 17, 2003
# Posts: 381
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Posted: 2003-Apr-09 11:01
Probably not in direct relation to your post but I feel that webrings can make a site look a bit amateurish, although of course I realise this depends on the ring...
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rmeigs
Joined: Jan 31, 2002
# Posts: 80
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Posted: 2003-Apr-10 04:17
There is no way I'd work so hard to build my traffic just to send them off to some other site. Now that you have built some good traffic, you really don't need the exposure now.
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JQ
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Joined: Mar 11, 2001
# Posts: 2765
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Posted: 2003-Apr-25 23:56
I would tend to agree with pjnunn777 that webrings can make a site look a bit amateurish. I can't think of any professional/commercial type sites that use them.
That said, I have used them on personal sites before, as it seemed a way to be linked with like-minded sites. But what I found was that many rings are very lax about screening for quality sites and will accept just about anything that's remotely considered on-topic.
And many of these sites will sign up for a ton of rings and bury them all on a rings page that hardly anyone goes to. Basically, you can get stuck between two low-traffic sites and not get any benefit.
In the end I removed all rings, as I was also in the same boat where I was delivering way more traffic than I ever got in return.
[ Message was edited by: JeromeQ 04/25/2003 03:57 pm ]
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Steve83
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Posted: 2003-Apr-26 00:20
Thanks for the replies - nice that there is email notification.
I agree -in fact I left the webring a few weeks ago. Useful for start up but once you get other sources of traffic established then they become insignificant. As others say, I agree they do look a little amateurish
[ Message was edited by: Steve83 04/25/2003 05:31 pm ]
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Hux
Joined: Dec 02, 2002
# Posts: 1207
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Posted: 2003-Apr-26 01:28
Web rings were kinda cool about five years ago, when the whole idea of the gigantic reservoir that is the internet really took hold of the public imagination. Since that time we have seen that, like the real world, image is very much "everything" if you have a business site. Web rings just don't cut it when you are trying to sell or market products or services via the web.
[ Message was edited by: Hux 05/01/2003 11:34 am ]
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justmom
Joined: Jul 13, 2000
# Posts: 104
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Posted: 2003-May-01 15:02
I am a little mixed about webrings.....I have a set of pages that are dedicated to the rings that point back to my main page....for example
I have and index(my main site) and then index2.....anything in 2 leads to all of my webring pages.....for me, it helped out with se's
what don't like.....webrings adverts have become worst than porn.....pop up after pop after pop up.....that's why think it's popularity has gone to the wayside
that just me
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