Re: *ANNC* a webring for the cpm operating system

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

ProteanThread wrote:

>"Gaby Chaudry" <chaudry@gaby.de> wrote in message

<snip>

>> Webrings are out. Some years ago, when there were only non-working search
>> engines and picky web directories, webrings were of some use to promote
>> similar sites, that otherwise would have gone lost in the WWW. Nowadays,
>> with Google and ODP, all important sites can be found with (most of the
>> times) one click. Only unimportant sites will still need to promote in some
>> other way (banners, webrings and the like).
>> All my sites are top-positioned at Google and listed on ODP, so for me
>> there's no need to deform my sites with ugly navigation bars.
>> </completely personal opinion>
>
>I respect you position but still see a benefit to webrings.  I think
>webrings still help newer or fresh sites to at least get somewhat noticed.
>Remember, Google (and other search engines) rankings are based on hits and
>newer websites do not have this advantage so they may not get noticed and
>therefore if the webmaster or webmistress realizes that not many people are
>visiting their site then they may abandon their well thought out well put
>together website and give up on any forth coming project or idea.

Actually, Google works on _references_ not on hits.

You can significantly boost your Google score by adding the
URL of your site to your .sig, like so:

-michael

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