How to Join A Web Ring

A web ring is basically a link that forms a network and connects similar websites to each other with the help of a navigation code. It is the best way to generate traffic to your website. This can either be a ring of personal community or a business community. A personal community has forums and other discussion boards, whereas a business community has sites that relate purely to your line of business and help generate sales.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet access
• Website
• Webring director account
• Computer

1. Visit the web ring directory site. One such site is at http://dir.webring.com
   
2. Sign up by creating an account with the web ring directory.
   
3. Search the web ring that best suits your purpose by typing relevant words in the upper search bar. For instance,if you have a site that provides baby care products, you can select rings which share opinions and guidance on baby care. The relevant words here might be "Baby care" and "Opinions."
   
4. Click to the relevant ring's hub page to know more about the web ring. This will also lead you to the instructions on how to join that ring as well as other information.
   
5. Click the previous or next navigation bar to get more sites with relevant information.
   
6. The membership criteria of every web ring differs. Sometimes, you can be a member directly or the web ring master needs to approve you as a member.
   

Tips & Warnings

• When you surf a particular web ring look at all the information on all the sites; their views and content. This helps you get a quality target audience for your site.
• The relevant words that you type while searching a particular web ring should be absolutely precise and correct to get you to the right web ring.
• Make sure that you join a ring that is surrounded with sites only of your relevance, otherwise you will not generate traffic to your site.