The Internet is Really, Really, Really, Big!

Holy Bat Dung, Batman, this really, really, really blew my mind!

Quoting Randfish, in part, on the SEOmoz Blog today in his excellent report about one of their new SEO utilities called Linkscape.  “The Internet is really, really, really Big…” and “if your [website] page has 100 [or more] external links to it, you are in the top 1/10th of one percent of all of the pages on the web”, and “On the entire web, the vast majority of websites never get 100 links pointing to them!”

Here is what I gained out of this morning’s RSS feed from the SEOmoz Blog,

Linkscape goes out with its own bots or spiders and they crawl the web indexing everything that they possibly can, and then you are allowed to use this compiled data for your own SEO purposes.  Since they created this tool and started crawling and collecting data for the 4th quarter of 2008 they have had two major updates.

You will want to read this full report by Rand because his numbers are staggering.  I see that they have crawled over 36 Billion url’s and he also states that their database may only be from 1/3 to ½ of what some of the bigger companies, (like you know who,) have compiled.

That is 36 Billion, with a “B” folks.

I’m also presuming that at this size there are probably some millions of new websites being built every day, and each and every one of them are trying to get a little bit of that fish food that is in front of you in this humongous aquarium called the Internet.

You must go and read the report yourself.  I have printed it out and hung it over my monitor.  I’ve really, really, really got to work harder.

Gotta go get some links.

Rich Hill

Update: 5/25/09 – Speaking of really big, I had to go to New York City recently on business and I was not sure where I was going to stay.  So I found this website that I want to share with you for booking your hotel or motel room in the Big Apple.  The site is: New York Motels and there are free descriptions of rooms and amenities of all the best hotels and motels in Mahattan as well as reviews of the really cheap hotels as well.  We recommend that you go to this site to check prices and availability and you may also make your room reservation right from the New York Motels website.

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3 Responses to “The Internet is Really, Really, Really, Big!”

  • Holy Smokes. I’d be thrilled if I could get 50 links pointing to one page. Heck, even 25. But that’s ok, I don’t mind the big fish getting all the major morsels as long as I can scrounge a few of the crumbs they leave behind. LOL

  • rich:

    You’ve got that right. I am so grateful for any interaction with my readers. I did find the overall numbers were staggering and just wanted to share. Thank you for the comment. Rich

  • Well as a newbie it seems like the rules are consistent with the real world in a to-be-expected way. Long term consistent excellence is rewarded…sigh…the something for nothing track never really works. Speaking of which I better go write an article…lol

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