webrings:

my client wants several

[webmstr]

I have never had this request before, and I have a client who sent me an email telling me that they want to be a part of several webrings, and some require certain types of "enter" pages etc. This would totally ruin the site I have created, and I am not really sure what it all entails as far as time and work are concerned. Is this a very time consuming thing to implement? Is the client supposed to join and then get me all fo the necessary info? I am not thrilled about this at all and wish there was some way I could discourage her. I think it will just "cheapen" her site so much. Any suggestions? Please help!

[vincevincevince]

There are easy to find sources on the internet about the demise of the web-ring, further - show her some sites with 'web rings' on them - so she appreciate the problem.

If you can work an hourly fee for implementing them, then that's all well and good?

[wheel]

I'd agree with all of this, except that I just partnered with some who has a homegrown financial site who's also a member of some sort of small yet relevant webring. And surprisingly, they get some decent numbers coming through the webring.

I suspect the webring is successful because it's a 'homegrown, personal thoughts on financial stuff' type of ring, so people are interested in seeing the non-corporate stuff.

[Staffa]

Though web rings have gone out of fashion the use of them could favour some sites.
If your customer's site is like arts and crafts related it could help.

Implementing a web ring is no hassle, just join up and insert some code in the relevant pages and that's it.

[webmstr]

would it then be strange for the client to want to join "several" webrings for one website? I find that strange. And then mess up the whole layout of the webpage by having to add banner after banner after logo etc etc?

[truezeta]

I cringe at such a thought. If she wants to do the main web-ring, wonderful! But adding webring, after webring...where would the madness stop. To be honest, if I go onto a site that claims they have webrings, I often leave. Not because they may not have great information, but because I can try my search again, and find the site I need without sifting through a bunch of pages, linked by banners, to other pages. That is so 1990's. Let's be better than that!

[Rani]

1)You dont need a seperate banner for each webring you join.One banner will do and you are still considered member of all the rings you join.
2)You get to choose which banner to paste on your site and if its too big or ugly you can even edit it.
3)My site is a member of 4 rings and i pasted the banner at the bottom of my links page so its not that bad.
4)Why did i join these rings?
Because each ring you join gives you a decent backlink.The more members on that ring - the higher the pr of that backlink.i have one ring with 300 sites on it giving me a pr5 backlink.

[ColdFusionJunkie]

Where did you find webrings that use real links, and not javascript generated redirects?

[Rani]

I use the good old regular webrings.
But i think i see where your question is comming from.
It's not that i get one backlink per ringmember on a specific ring.
i get one backlink per ring.
I am a member in 4 rings so that gives me 4 backlinks.
When i do a backlink search for my site,these rings show up.
Is it worth the trouble?
I used to have PR=0 before i joined the rings.Today i have PR=4.
I think that the webrings contributed somewhat to this increase.

[grandpa]

Hi webmstr

My webrings all enter my site thru a single page, my Webring Welcome page, if you will. All webrings are pointed to this page, not to internal pages on the site. From that page the visitor has access to my site thru the menu and any other links I put on the page. That leaves my content pages free of any extra banners/logos, and still provides a small source of highly targeted traffic.