Wednesday, November 01, 2006

101.4 Million & Growing, or is it?

Netvention just reported that there are now 101.4 million websites across the Internet, up from 50 million in May of 2004 and 18,000 in August of '95. Wow! Over 100 million websites......now, you know what's funny about that number? I read recently that the average life cycle of a website was less than 60 days and from my experiences as the President of a hosting company, I can tell you that there are a significant number of folks that purchase websites on a whim and never even build them for all sorts of reasons, but mostly because they just lose interest.Some folks just don't have the technical instincts, even when a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)site builder is included in the hosting package. Some folks go to the trouble of building something, but didn't really know what they wanted to do with the site to start and they lose interest. Then there are those who build them and don't do anything to give the site visibility on the Internet, which is the same as abandoning it. What's the point of building a website if no one is going to actually see it? So, my point? We may have over 100 million websites sitting on servers across the globe, but what percentage of those sites are every actually visited. Now add the complications associated with the hosting industry. In the U.S.alone we have over 15,000 web hosting companies in business, but the top 10 have nearly 60% of the market. So now, we have web hosting companies that aren't seen hosting websites that aren't seen.........the lesson here folks is that it is hard to be seen in a crowd and you had better know what you what to do before you launch the site and if you really need to be seen you have to engage an expert to make it happen. Buying Google AdWords is not going to get you on page one on Google, and if you aren't on page one of Google you better be on page one of something or else you are wasting your money. Want to know how to be seen. Go to my links, click on neboweb and talk to some experts.

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