Demographics Show Number of Websites in Billions - Why Good SEO is so Important

Sunday February 8, 2009

In 2005, Google reported they indexed 8,058,044,651 web pages on the Internet. This does not include the millions of pages they did not index. Today, the number of Google-indexed pages is estimated to be closer to 9 billion and thousands of new websites go live every single day.

Royal Pingdom reports that it was 6 years from when the first website appeared in December 1990 before the Internet had 100,000 websites. In 2008, Royal Pingdom estimated there were more than 162 million websites (not web pages).

Every Single Website and Blog is Now Your Competition

All websites and blogs on the Internet are your competition even if you are not sharing the same information, selling the same products, or in the same industry. Why? Because websites and blogs are popping up faster than webcrawlers can deal with them and there is intense competition to get robots to even visit your website.

To get attention on the Internet, you need to have robot-friendly meta data, content, and site construction. To get people to click through to your website and read it, you need to have people-friendly meta data, quality content, and a user-friendly layout.

The problems begin when “robot-friendly” and “people-friendly” overlap but do not reconcile. That’s where an expert in SEO can help.