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Saturday, March 18, 2006

5. Web Traffic Reality Check

Everyone dreams of capturing top search engine results, but it is a tough game of odds.

In July 2005, Geoffrey Mack, a product manager and contributor to Alexa - Web Discovery Machine blog made an interesting observation in a post entitled “Top 500 Sites Have All the Luck.”

Geoffrey writes:

Like the distribution of wealth on the planet, the distribution of traffic on the Web is extremely lopsided. The Top 500 are champagne and caviar. Sites 501 - 100,000 are meat and potatoes. The rest are hungry.


At the time, there were some 18 million websites and Geoffrey’s statement emphasizes the reality we must accept, not the quality of Websites that go click-hungry.