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webring - i want to create one - question ?

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  • 09-03-2008 2:27pm
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    ChicoMendez
    Registered Users Posts: 648 ✭✭✭


    hi there,

    i am building a site for a hotel in wicklow and im also going to do a bit of SEO.
    what i would like to do is exchange links with other hotels in ireland- my idea is to create a webring- basically meaning getting 2 hotels per county on board to exchange links with all the hotels in the webring (ie 2 x 32 counties = 64).
    however i want to simplify this process.

    one option is to take the details of each hotel and create the page and once i have the 64 hotels then i send a page to be published by each other site

    however the problem is that if a hotel does not publish this i dont want to be going back to the other 63 hotels saying take those guys off the list.

    does anyone have any ideas about how i could automate the process so as i could remove the 'bold' hotel and they will automatically be removed from the list ?

    thanks


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Keep the list of hotels on your own server as some kind of editable file and have the other sites pull that when displaying the page? Cache the file on their side and refresh periodically as needed to make sure its always current?


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    ChicoMendez
    Registered Users Posts: 648 ✭✭✭ChicoMendez


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Keep the list of hotels on your own server as some kind of editable file and have the other sites pull that when displaying the page? Cache the file on their side and refresh periodically as needed to make sure its always current?


    Hi Aidan

    yes that would be the idea alright - however how would that be easiest dooable ? and with what technology ? if i created a javascript file to print off the links would google pick up the links (considering it would be js) ?

    i want to make it as easy for the other hotels to do as possible

    thanks


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    ianhobo
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭ianhobo


    The "easiest" way is just plain simple html and an <iframe>. You remain in complete control, when one of the other websites loads, it loads that page from your server, pretending its their own.

    The downside is that it's not very SEO friendly as robots don't/can't/wont index frames. Also, it most likely wouldn't be associated with the respective websites in terms of links.

    If seo is important, then either asp.net, php, or ajax would be the way to go. You would use the same content, just the way the server goes about getting it would be different.


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    WizZard
    Registered Users Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    If this is for SEO purposes I'd think again. Webrings are considered similarly to "link farms" by Google AFAIK, so it may actually hurt your sites to be part of one (in terms of SE visibility/ranking


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