iRing-RLopen wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote :
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.
That's true, of course. There are quite a few other valid objections
to my statement. (I won't mention them.) Nevertheless...
Say you have a ring with 100 sites. If you would compare the top 10
average site quality with the bottom 10, the former is _very_ likely
higher quality. How come? :)
Most surfers, on my system, visit membersites from the memberlist.
I think surfer pick sites depending on the sitedescription.
That does not make a difference with respect to the Ringlink
statistics. If you click a 'next' link, the referring site is credited
a generated hit, and the receiving site is noted for a received hit.
If you click a 'list' link instead, the referring site still gets a
generated hit (provided that the site ID is included in the link -
which it should be). Then, when you click a site from the member list,
that site is noted for a received hit.
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
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.
What you say is that a webring directory is a way to promote rings.
The route we have choosen for the Ringlink program in this respect is
to integrate it with the central Ringlink Webring Directory by
facilitating submissions of rings (a button in "Ring admin" takes you
to a prefilled form). That same feature was designed so that you can
facilitate submissions to one or more other directories in the same way.
/ Gunnar