Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote :
I have no plans to implement ring categories in the Ringlink program.
IMO, categories would make sense if you had a really _large_ number of
Btw, note that the stats feature is an indicator of the quality of the
sites in a webring. After all, good sites get more traffic than bad
ones, right? ;-)
I'm not sure that the stats feature is an indicator of the quality of the
sites. The surfer don't know the quality of the site before visiting.
Most surfers, on my system, visit membersites from the memberlist.
I think surfer pick sites depending on the sitedescription.
According to my serverlog, during last 6 month, about 10% of
sitevisits is from other membersites. About 90% of traffic to
membersites is from memberlists! Eg. They are used as a collection
of links.
Traffic to the memberlists is about 50% from membersites and 50%
from my systems ringdirectory. Eg about 45% of traffic to membersites
is generated from my systems homepage, that is an substantial part.
I have a categorised ringdirectory. After seting up the directory I noted
increasing traffic to the rings memberlists and to the member sites. On
the average a surfter visits 4-5 sites from the memberslist. I reckon
surfers pick sites depending on the site description.
A categorised directory only make sense if you have a certain number
of rings. I believe however that the number does not nead to be that
many. I setup my directory when I reached 32 rings to list (rings with
2 or more active sites).
After seting up the directory I notised an increase in new rings. I think
that the directory make the system look more professional and make
ringmasters more interested to use my system.
//Ulf
http://www.iring.nu