Monday, May 2, 2011

Webrings

Depending on the conetent of your site, you can utilize webrings to get more links and more traffic to your website.

A webring is a collection of websites from around the internet that join together by a code in a basic ring fashion. The NavBar code (sometimes called SSNB) is a small piece of JavaScript (or HTML) that allows the surfer to click on a link to travel to the next, previous, or a random site.

Through these links the surfer eventually can browse through the whole ring ending up right back where they. Hence its name. This in effect will add many links pointing to your website, which will result in a higher search engine ranking and more traffic. And not just random traffic. Targeted traffic.

Visitors using specific webrings are interested in the same subject matter, so if your site is part of the ring that serves that specific market, you know you're getting visitors who are already looking for what you're offering. And did I mention, webrings are free to join.

Another way to use webrings is to create your own. In addition to the advantages already mentioned, by controlling your own webring, you can ensure that your competition is NOT part of the ring. You can get a free webring script from a number of places. Just do a search for free webring scripts and I'm sure you'll get hundreds of results.

Implementing it doesn't take any real technical skill. All you have to do is copy the html (script) into your webpage html and there you have it. Instant webring.

That's it for today's traffic generation idea. Hope you found it helpful. Visit tomorrow for the next idea.

Until tomorrow,

Terry