NONE: Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Webrings. Worth it?
Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Webrings. Worth it?
Donna Dolezal Zelzer (djz_at_efn.org)
Wed, 24 Dec 1997 17:56:40 -0800
At 11:29 AM -0800 12/23/1997, Joel Shellman made this statement:
> Also, just for one person's opinion, the first things I think of a
>webpage when
> I see a webring on it is "unprofessional" and "desparate for traffic". I
>would
> be extremely wary of doing any kind of business with a web page that had
>a web
> ring on it. To me, web rings mean personal homepages, usually with no
>content
> (or no content I'm interested in). Now maybe that is just due to my
>experience
> looking through a lot of personal homepages on free webpage services, but...
The web rings I've run across have mainly been on pages that had content
that I was interested in. Some of these pages were personal pages, but that
doesn't make their content any less valuable. (And some of them were very
badly designed, but the content was still good.)
(I can't help but wonder what you were doing on all those pages with no
content of interest to you?...:-) )
It would never occur to me NOT to do business with a site just because it
was a member of a web ring. To me, web rings give a sense of community:
THIS site is just one of several sites where I can find more information on
the same subject -- and some of the sites may have things to sell.
I've actually never followed a web ring, though, since it's a blind jump to
the next site, and I prefer to know where I'm going, generally speaking.
Donna
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Donna Dolezal Zelzer <djz_at_efn.org>
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