The Black Hole of the Internet
99.9% of Websites Ever Created Will Never Be Seen
🌑 I've made the statement that 99.9% of websites ever created are never seen by anyone on the internet, except of course the people or person that created them.
Actually the odds are a lot worse than .1% that your website will be seen.
Let's try an experiment:
Do a search on Bing for web hosting
Bing returns 1,860,000 websites.
Repeat the search on Google (who no longer provides the number of pages) for web hosting.
The search on Google returns 18 web pages of 10 results each or 180 web pages.
That's 180 web pages that you can access on Google out of 1,860,000 and many of those listings are the same website over and over and numerous videos.
Now do the math. 180 divided by 1,860,000.
That's .000096774 or .0096774%
Sorry but I don't even know how to say these percentages. Needless to say they are much lower than one tenth of a percent.
To make matters worse; how many times have you gone to page 18 of the search results? Most people don't go past page 3. Consider also that most of the first 3 pages on Google are pay for position ads. (Talking competitive keyword phrases)
They say SEO and organic search are alive and well. I just don't see how it's possible. I know the profession is but what about the RESULTS.
UPDATE
👉As of September 2024, the Internet hosts over 1.1 billion or exactly 1,119,023,272 websites. Approximately 17% are actively maintained and updated, which means around 192 million websites are active and serve as essential nodes.
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What Are the Odds
Slim and None if You're Depending on Google
Not to discourage your expectations, but Google who boasts about 90% of the search market only displays a minute number of possible landing pages in a Search Query.
Let's experiment with a few keyword phrases and you decide if websites are worth the trouble.
First we'll do a search on Bing which gets about 4% of the search market. They will tell us how many actual landing pages they find.
We'll repeat the search on Google and see how many they display.
| Keyword | Bing # of Pages | Google Pages Displayed |
|---|---|---|
| web design | 9.420.000 | 210 |
| real estate | 47,400,000 | 151 |
| android phone | 4,980,000 | 149 |
| free cell phone games | 6,070,000 | 146 |
| google search | 180,000,000 | 116 |
| create a free website | 61,500,000 | 182 |
| cell phones | 21,200,000 | 150 |
| Android cell phones | 21,500,000 | 139 |
| discounts on Android cell phones | 9,900,000 | 163 |
Try a few for yourself. If you've started your research, try a few of your choices.
Is Organic Search Dead for Most of Us?
With Google boasting control of close to 90% of the search market the addition of AI and other search strategies has changed the game for most website authors.
"It’s as though Google took the index cards for the screenplay it’s been writing for the past 25 years and tossed them into the air to see where the cards might fall. Also: The screenplay was written by AI."It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It
"Whether you’re an SEO guru, a content strategist, or just a business owner trying to understand the shifts, it’s key to remember that search isn’t monolithic anymore. It’s now split between Google's quick-facts approach and LLMs' creative brainstorming approach. Understanding, acknowledging, and embracing this shift is how we stay ahead in a world where organic search traffic may never look the same again."
The Real Reason Why Organic Search Traffic is Declining
"Adding to the struggle, Google has begun prioritizing its own AI-generated results, reducing the need for users to click on external websites. This means even high-quality sites that once ranked well now compete against AI summaries that provide quick answers without sending users to their websites."
The Decline of Organic Search: Pay-to-Play Dominates the Web
"Traditionally, search engines relied heavily on keywords and backlinks to determine a page’s relevance. While these factors still hold some weight, AI is enabling search engines to delve deeper into the nuances of content and user intent."
How AI is Changing How Search Engines Understand and Rank Content
Summary: Organic search as we knew it 20 years ago has evolved into a NEW Animal. Keywords and backlinks are now a very small part and extensive research beyond that is STRONGLY advised,
👉Read the SEO Experts
"If you aren't in that first 1,000 of those millions of reported search engine statistics, your site has no search engine representation.....
Do you see the importance of doing your keyword research and then optimizing your web pages?
If you don't, well then, Enjoy the Black Hole!!
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