At 12:45 PM 8/5/1998 -0800, Suzanne so eloquently stated:
>I would appreciate some feedback on your opinions concerning WebRing and
>its value as a search engine, portal, indexing system, or whatever it
>should be called according to the buzz word of the day. I would like to
>pass your remarks on to a client who is considering a marketing affiliation
>with WebRing.
>
>Thanks, Suz
We have had some ongoing discussions on this on E-Tailer's Digest
and the consensus is they are OK, but you have to understand that
you will lose people when they click on the Web ring.
One of our members summed it up well....
"I think there are issues involved in joining a webring. viz;
1. The clash of introduced elements with the uniform design of the website.
2. The 'bleed' of visitors from your site before they have got your message.
3. The possibility of sending away more than you get back
dependent upon where you are positioned in 'the ring'."
Here's an excerpt from the Webring site, http://www.webring.org
"The Webring is a totally free service offered to the Internet
community. We are a quickly growing collection of homepages from
all over the World who are committed to creating a new kind of
Web community. The Webring provides the World Wide Web with a
different way to organize web sites. The Webring is a way to
group together sites with similar content (or any pages at all,
if one so desires) by linking them together in a circle, or ring.
How does it work?
The idea is that once you are at one site in the webring, you can
click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to adjacent sites in
the ring and--if you do it long enough--end up where you started.
This is actually something you can do without the Webring system
by simply having each page owner link their site to the next.
However, when somebody wants to join the ring, someone has to
edit their page to point to the new page and--when the ring gets
big enough--it becomes more and more difficult to keep the ring
"intact" when pages disappear and servers go down.
The Webring provides a solution to all of these problems, as well
as numerous enhancements. When you join a Webring, the HTML code
on your homepage never changes. Links point to a special CGI
script at webring.org that will send people to the next (or
previous) site in the ring. Because the central ring database is
located in one location, sites can be added and removed quickly
and easily, and because the Webring CGI allows you go continue
past sites that are unreachable, you will always be able to
continue around the loop."
For more details on the discussion go to the archives at
http://www.gapent.com/etailer/ and search on webring
George
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