The ever increasing web-space problem.

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Internet, unlike real life, is not limited. It's a huge archive that holds entire world's knowledge. Every day more and more web pages are added and more and more articles are written, more images added. Let's look what will happen down the line.

Eventually, be it 5, 10, 20 years, everyone will have web access. Let's say there are 6.8 billion+ people on earth, billions of people searching the internet daily. However, there is even more supply of information. Every article you write remains in the internet forever. Every Squidoo lens you make, every blog, webpage, livejournal entry, etc...and over generations this amount of information will only increase, never stopping.

What will happen? Eventually the supply will outweight the demand. There will be so many sites that your little page or squidoo lens will be lost among billions of others. It will become harder and harder to rank for keywords, to find longtails and decent domain names when every second person will have their own homepage.

There is only so much traffic to go around.

Have you thought about this? What is your take?
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    That was a major discussion in the 90's of what would happen when every one had a web page. In fact, most people are too lazy to do any hard work like that of creating a site such as getting content and images.

    Creating a page now is harder and the time it takes is even more. People now want to see movies. They expect you to dance and sing. It is getting more difficult to break in.

    Instead of more content what we have are more copies. Storage and bandwidth back in the 90's were max expensive.

    What we have now are a lot of scrapers. Those people grab my pictures and copy. Actually, they add like nothing of value - zero. Still, Google must sort through billions of pages. Yeah, and most are copies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary King
    Hi James,

    Yes but targeted traffic will always rein supreme...

    There will be enough to go around for those delivering quality.

    Have a great day!

    Gary
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