Your website probably has an "about" page. Maybe a "contact" page, or even a "now" page.
A /friends page is where you link to the people you like: friends, acquaintances, people you know, people you like, and stuff like that.
It lives at one simple address: yourdomain.com/friends.
That's where this site gets its name. slashfriends.org = /friends. And it's a directory of these pages, so you can hop from one person's corner of the Internet to another.
Yes! And blogrolls were great. But nobody uses them anymore.
I want to bring them back. /friends is a common address that's easy to add to any site with no plugins and no fancy code. And because everyone puts it in the same place, people (and robots) can find your trusted links.
Doesn't social media already show who I follow? Sort of. But you probably follow hundreds of accounts. A /friends page is smaller and more deliberate.
Whatever you want! But here's how I think about it:
Start by linking to your real friends. If you don't have a lot of friends with websites, think: Who's underrated online? Whose work do I love? Link to them.
Want an example? Here's my page: nickgray.net/friends
Honestly, that's a complicated question. Try not to overthink it! Just link to people you like and appreciate.
Ideally to their personal website. If they don't have one, a social media profile works too (Instagram, X, LinkedIn).
My first website was on Geocities. I miss webrings and blogrolls and the MySpace Top 8.
The old web was built out of personal sites pointing at each other. I still love poking around people's little crafty corners of the Internet. Make a /friends page and show me who else you like!
Here's the thing: linking out is generous. It's a free gift that sends traffic, boosts SEO, and says "I like this person." Most sites hoard their links now. Your /friends page is the opposite: a place to share links freely with your friends, and to get them back.
For the SEO nerds: when you submit your website, you'll get a great quality backlink. I'll be building up the authority on this slashfriends.org domain soon. I'll also link you from my personal site at nickgray.net, which Ahrefs says has a DA of 55. Plus making individual pages for each website, just like my personalwebsite.org site has (DA of 35), and putting your links in my sitemaps. As AI search and fan-out queries grow, I think that these human-curated links help answer engines figure out who to cite. A /friends page is good for SEO and AEO, and as long as I can avoid the spammers, I think everyone wins.
yourdomain.com/friends with links to your friends' sites.Listings are re-checked daily. If your site goes offline for a few days, its card is hidden until it comes back.
Me! I'm Nick Gray. I built this because I want more people to make personal websites and link to each other.
Questions, ideas, or feedback? Email me: hello@nickgray.net