Search engine optimization as we all should know is only one aspect of Web marketing, which itself is only one aspect of marketing. Marketing can be described as the process of identifying and sati…Source: Channels of Visibility – SEO Theory
The whole article is good, thoughtful. What caught my eye was the observations about webrings. This addresses the question of scale of any one given ring and the sweet spot in terms of numbers of members in the webring. Recommended reading.
Personally I don’t think those sweet spot numbers will change even for modern webring management code because human behavior hasn’t really changed.