a webring is a collection of people who all have a website and link each other together in a ring; if you take a look at my webrings tab, you'll usually see 'previous' and 'next' buttons to navigate to the people i'm basically holding internet-hands with!

a clique is a lighter-form version of a webring; instead of linking together one by one, a clique usually asks members to link back to their site, rather than each other. they also don't usually involve javascript!

and neighbors is a cute little term i've seen people use - usually on neocities? - to refer to people they agree to link back and forth with! these people have my button on their site, too!