webrings

Jane Sullivan wrote in news:oGsGmdJKSUFGFA+ snipped-for-privacy@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk:

It's certainly never happened in the past ... when I was less busy at my real work I ran several very active website that included (or actually ran) links to webrings. In theory (a) it shoyuldn't happen and (b) is self defeating in that if a webring puts in a link to a non-member it looses any chance of keeping the visitor.

Very strange.

Dunno, but if you discover that the webrings are actually alive, useful and used, then post back here.

Many many years ago I put the 2mm site on the model rail webring. I'm fairly sure we fell off at some point. We came massively down any sensible search for 2mm models (pages and pages down the list, whereas Google puts the site often first, and regularly in top half dozen for similar terms). Trying to contact any owner failed, so I assumed it was dead, removed the links from our website, etc..

If there is evidence webrings are alive and useful, then I'll try to reconnect.

- Nigel (as 2mm webmaster)

"Nigel Cliffe" wrote in news:ev3l3u$7t2$1$ snipped-for-privacy@news.demon.co.uk:

When I was actively promoting and running various websites (mainly wargaming/military history) I found them to be very useful indeed. Generating a fair bit of traffic, if for no other reason than a visitor by following a ring is virtually garanteed to land at another site that will be of interest to him.

In message , Model Depot writes

Thanks, but ...

I checked it last night after reading this, and there was nothing there, so I checked it again this morning. Still nothing there, sorry.

In message , Simon Judd writes

Thanks for all your help, Simon.

Incidentally, I've absolutely no idea how I got into the Live Steam Railway Modelling ring (which has only 7 sites) or the 16mm Garden Railway ring (which has 47 sites). Maybe someone thought they were doing me a favour by adding me, but it's obvious that whoever it was had not looked even once at my site. The last time I did anything to my webring entry was when the navigation code changed, and that was absolutely ages ago!

They should not have done that because it requires the webmaster (you) to add the forward and backward links. You became a dead end that broke the ring.