Adding & Managing your Web Ring

What is a WebRing?

A webring is a method of linking a large number of sites together in group. Visitors can surf the ring and enjoy the content of members. Its a way to share traffic and get referals. Its one of the biggest traffic generating tools available.

There are many remotely hosted systems such as https://webring.com that allow you to sign up and use their programs, however you will be sending all traffic to them and their ads.

By using your own site as the main hub, you get the benefit of the traffic and can avoid the ads and redirects that are associated with remotely hosted rings.

So how do you get started?

You can add the webring to any page using the inclusion code:
%%include-webring%%

Once the page is up, you will need to sign up at your own website to include your site in the ring, which you most likely will want to do. So just go to the page you just set up.

As the Administrator, you will now need to access your website management console and approve the site to be added to the webring. In the future, you will need to approve all sites before they are added into the ring, so this is great practice.

When you approve any website, an e-mail will be sent to the site owner stating the acceptance into the ring and instructions for adding the code to their pages.

Now, as the new member, follow the instructions sent to you and go to the main webring page.

Login with the username and pass you just set up and you will see the code to include in your page.

Copy the html code into any of your pages and save the page.

If done correctly you should see a box like the one shown below.

Your box will actually link to member sites and keep track of click thrus for members and visitors to view. The home link will take them to the main hub, your website, to see the entire member list and stats. Therefore, every member links directly back to your website, a huge benefit of being the ring owner.

To add members to the webring, have them go to your webring page, that is the page you set up the webring on.

They can sign up just as you have, past the code in their page and become one of the sites on your hub.

This is definetly a must if you have a hobby website or a place you really want to share your passion with other people having the same interests. Not so great for business websites since you will often redirect traffic to competitors.

To approve sites and remove sites from the ring. Simply access the webring management link from your main management page. You will be able to remove dead sites or sites that violate your rules.

We strongly suggest you post the rules of your ring on one of your pages. This will prevent people from getting involved in your ring if they are not compliant.

For examply, if you run a fishing webring, you do not want telemarketers signing up and wasting your time declining them.