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Indie Web Initiative

Welcome to Webnetz The web is bigger than the platforms.

For all those who still shape the internet themselves.

webnetz is a free recommendation network for independent websites, blogs, and projects.
Embed a simple widget on your site, recommend other hand-picked projects, and get discovered by new visitors in return.

Mutual reach for the Indie Web.

More real visitors for your site.
Without social media dependency.

Your projects deserve readers who are genuinely interested in your content. Webnetz connects handcrafted websites via a lightweight recommendation widget – free, fair, and guaranteed without tracking or ads.

Why joining is worth it for you:
✓ Reach new audiences: Your website becomes directly visible to visitors of other relevant sites.
✓ Gain independent visibility: Become independent of Google updates, SEO spam, and social media feeds.
✓ Thematically fitting recommendations: You decide whether your project appears across the entire network or preferably within your category.
✓ Installed in 2 minutes: No complex setup. Copy code, paste it, and profit immediately.
✓ Clean & Privacy-focused: No cookie banner required, loads under 5 kB, and won't slow down your site.
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Network Code of Conduct

Our principles for a clean and independent web

1. The Fair-Play Principle (No Widget, No Network)

The network thrives on mutual recommendations. If you want to be visible in the pool, you must embed the widget clearly on your site. Hiding it in the footer via CSS (e.g., display: none or tiny font) is forbidden. If a site sends no widget calls for 14 days, display is automatically paused until real calls are received again.

2. Quality over Quantity

We want to connect websites crafted and maintained with passion. This includes personal blogs, niche sites, portfolios, creative projects, and other independent web offers. Prerequisites are recognizable original content, a functional and secure website (HTTPS), and a human creator behind the project. Whether regular blog posts, a comprehensive portfolio, or a lovingly designed solo project – what matters is quality and personal character, not volume. Empty construction sites, pure demos, auto-generated content sites, and unmaintained projects will not be approved.

3. What is strictly forbidden?

No chance for ad-hell, affiliate deserts, SEO link-exchange networks, AI spam sites, click bots, or illegal content. Anyone bothering visitors with aggressive popups or generating artificial clicks will be permanently removed immediately.

4. Transparency & Quality

Clicking inside the widget takes the visitor directly to the target without detours or intermediary pages. Every new website is manually reviewed by a human before approval. If a site goes offline or develops errors, our automatic two-chance system steps in (temporary pause prior to exclusion).

Live Preview & Widget Builder

Customize the design directly for your website – no registration required

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Real-time Preview:
Empfehlung • Musik & Kultur
Tortys Welt – Musik, DIY & Blog

Persönlicher Blog über Indie-Kultur, Musikproduktion, DIY-Projekte und selbstgehostetes Web.

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