Thanks for your interest! On this page you will find information and graphics associated with the San Francisco North Bay Equestrian Web Ring (Equi-Ring). Please look the page over fully before you decide to join. when you'd like to move on to the process of adding your equestrian website to our ring, just return to the ring panel, and click on the "JOIN" Link.

FAQ

1. How much is this going to cost me?

It's FREE! All it will require is that you or your web designer place the web ring link on your top equestrian page. This is just a way for all of us horse people with websites to help each other build traffic.

2. What is a "Web Ring" any way?

A web ring is a collection of websites, with a similar theme or topic, linked together with a special site ring panel that goes on each ring member's top page. Visitors can jump from site to site in order or randomly.

3. What's in it for me?

A web ring is a simple tool to bring more visitors to your website. People who visit one equestrian site are very likely to surf to others, if there's an obvious and easy way to do it. A web ring also helps build a spirit of community among people of similar interests. If your website serves your business, this translates to more profit for you in the long run. If you have a personal website, this web ring can help you share your passion for horses with more visitors.

4. How does the Site Ring service work?

You need to copy/paste the code for the Equi-Ring panel (shown below) onto your top equestrian webpage, then save and publish or upload the revised file to your web server. This code places hyperlinked buttons on your webpage. When a visitor clicks on these buttons they are directed to various websites in the webring.

5. What kind of websites can join the Equi-Ring?

There are only two requirements: Your site needs to directly pertain to the equestrian lifestyle in some manner. And you or your business must be based in the San Francisco North Bay Counties: Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, or Sonoma. Your website can be for a business, your personal site, or an organization.

The one thing that we ask is that your site have some level of general interest to the equestrian community at large. If you just have a pet horse photo you want to share on a website, there are plenty of places to do that. But if your personal equestrian pastime involves photos and/or information that would be interesting to horse lovers in general, by all means please do submit it.

6. Why only have websites from the North Bay counties?

Other, much larger web rings and directories provide links to equestrian websites all over the place. Our North Bay counties are a unique region, and horse people in this area have things in common. By all means, promote your website wherever you feel it will do you good. But we, in this area can help the other equestrian people with whom we are neighbors, by forming a local web ring.

7. How can I join the North Bay Equestrian Webring?

Please look over the contents of this page, so all your questions can be answered. At the top and bottom of the page you will find a "JOIN EQUI-RING" link.

Once you've applied to join, and the Equi-Ring links have been placed on your top equestrian page, your site will added to the webring. It's as simple as that! Please note that the Equi-Ring links need to at least be on your TOP equestrian page, not just the links page. This helps your site, get promoted, as well as helping our web ring succeed. Of course, if you also want to link to us on your links page, it would be warmly appreciated.

A small note to curmudgeons, contrarians, or just plain sneaky people: Member websites will be visited fairly frequently. Those sites with the Equi-Ring links removed from the top equestrian page after joining, will be deleted from the ring without notice, never to return.

8. If I paste the Site Ring code on my webpage what will I see?

The code for the North Bay Equi-Ring places a centered, link panel on your webpage called "North Bay Equi-ring". It has buttons there for the visitor to visit other sites on the ring in various ways. See example below.

WHAT THE LINKS LOOK LIKE

Here are some examples of the type of links that you will need to put on the top equestrian page on your website. Please note that these aren't working links, they are just examples.

Here's what the link panel with graphics looks like:

NORTH BAY EQUESTRIAN WEB RING Ring Moderator: RRiddle   Site: North Bay Counties Equestrian Webring Home Page

VIEW THIS PANEL ON OUR PAGE

If for some reason you want to set up a ring panel without graphics on your website, you can use the HTML code from the example below. Go ahead and apply for ring membership, then copy/paste the code for the example below. Insert your member ID number into the code. If you feel this is too complicated for you to do, send me an email, and I will try to help you get it going.

SPECIAL NOTE: If by chance your website uses frames your visitors must be able to move completely out of your website, to the next site. If you use frames, send me an email, and I will get you the adjusted code.