A web ring is group of related web pages linked to each other in a sequence that forms a ring. When someone searching the web stumbles across one of the web ring's pages, they can click through to other sites that have related content. Web content-providers can add their pages to the ring by 'linking in' to the ring so that web surfers are more likely to encounter their site. Web rings usually have a moderator who controls which pages are 'related' and which are orthogonal to the purpose of the web ring. The step-by-step click-through route around the ring is augmented by a hub-site providing links to all member-sites, which also gives some safeguard against member sites going offline.

The intent of the participants of a web ring is not to deceive search engines, and in this sense, this can be considered a white-hat search engine optimization technique.

See also

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• Link farm

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Megan just gave me a flashback to high school by reminding me of web rings, guestbooks, and badges.
danielsolis (danielsolis) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:17:42 -0000
Megan just gave me a flashback to high school by reminding me of web rings, guestbooks, and badges.
Watching Lord of the Rings while mocking up a client web dashboard for tomorrows meeting. Nerd4Life!
travisneids (Travis Neiderhiser) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:57:57 -0000
Watching Lord of the Rings while mocking up a client web dashboard for tomorrows meeting. Nerd4Life!
That's Charlotte, as in of the web, and Lord, as in of the Rings ... for some reason saying this always makes me laugh :)
Charlotte_Lord (Charlotte Lord) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:05:48 -0000
That's Charlotte, as in of the web, and Lord, as in of the Rings ... for some reason saying this always makes me laugh :)
Sheesh! - what would happen to all the good cooking web rings if this proposed copyright legislation gets passed? http://bit.ly/1SuXrF
digitalphone (RE Saulpaugh) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:31:13 -0000
Sheesh! - what would happen to all the good cooking web rings if this proposed copyright legislation gets passed? http://bit.ly/1SuXrF
Celtic Rings Holds Monthly Facebook Drawing - PR Web (press release) http://tinyurl.com/ygar7m5
Jewels_us (Jewels R Us) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:03:34 -0000
Celtic Rings Holds Monthly Facebook Drawing - PR Web (press release) http://tinyurl.com/ygar7m5
@da_Goat I'll bet when ya phone rings she wants 2 know who it is. Instead of jst givin ya space. I dnt get me started about the web.
LadyVirtuous (Vickie Proctor) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:41:16 -0000
@da_Goat I'll bet when ya phone rings she wants 2 know who it is. Instead of jst givin ya space. I dnt get me started about the web.

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