Webring

Webrings link sites in the same subject together.

The idea of ​​the webring is to link thematically related websites through links with each other. Thus, the operator of the participating sites are hoping more visitors to your own sites. In return, a link will be posted on another website Webrings or a complete link list of all sides of Webrings on each side.

The Internet user is given the advantage that he receives several thematically related pages at a glance, without having to search through a search engine like this o. In addition, he is clicking through all the pages end up back at the website out, in which he has begun, and it must not only re- locate.

History

The idea of ​​Webrings comes from Sage Weil, 1994, the first webring opened and a corresponding CGI script for managing wrote. He registered on to this time, the domain webring.org. On 9 May 2000 Yahoo took over webring.org. Later there was a spin-off by Yahoo.

Technical implementation

The technical implementation is mostly done by means of a central page for the webring that contains a script that stores all registered Web sites in a database. Often also a ready-made service a provider is claimed.

On the websites of the participants themselves JavaScript scripts are usually integrated, which communicate with the script of the main website. Alternatively can be used on each Web server-side scripting language.