Webring
Also sometimes referred to as a netring, a webring is a group of Internet web sites that participate with other web sites that contain information about a specific topic by adding a webring script to their page. The script adds links or images to their page similar to the below example.
| Computer Webring Example |
| < Previous page | List all | Next page > |
As can be seen in the above example, the webring allows the person interested about computers to continue browsing other computer related sites in the webring by clicking one of the links. For example, if a user clicked "Next page" they would be forwarded to the next web page in the ring of pages. Eventually, if the user browsed all pages in the webring, they would end up back to the page they originally started at.
Webrings were popular in the infancy of the Internet, however with quality of search engines and services such as StumbleUpon today most sites no longer use them. Most webrings and the scripts used to make the webring functional are run by sites dedicated to webrings. Click here to search for available webrings.
- If considering webrings to increase your sites traffic see the web page promotion tips and secrets page for more effective strategies in increasing your site traffic.
Also see: Internet, Internet definitions