How Much Of The Web Do You Own?
A recent post by Google stated that they now have over a trillion unique pages in the Google search index. That made me wonder — how much of the Web do I own, exactly? A quick calculation showed me the answer: not enough!
Anyhow, I put together a silly little online tool called How Much Of The Web Do You Own? that you can use to determine your own percentage. First calculate how many pages you have on all your sites — use the Yahoo! Site Explorer to get the numbers, it’s more accurate than Google’s site: command — and plug that number into the tool. Then bash your head against the desk…
Think of it from the AdSense publisher’s perspective. If each page you own (and “own” can be defined pretty loosely to mean any page which you can monetize via AdSense) makes you an average of 1 cent per day (I’m just pulling that number from a hat), then 100 pages doesn’t make you much — a whole $1/day. You need to get up to 10,000 pages to start seeing a significant amount of $100/day. Just think of what you could make with a million or so pages…
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39 Responses to “How Much Of The Web Do You Own?”
Ha, I have so many pages, but such a small amount % of the web. A penny a day per page does seem to be fairly accurate though.
My stats are too low to even bother sharing
but at least CNN’s are too! I’ve tried the “1 penny per page per day” routine, it’s just not as .. accurate as I hoped. More pages doesn’t always equate more income.
That is a good point Alex. You really need quality pages that get hit a lot to make money.
One thing the tool doesn’t do is factor in quality, that’s for sure! If all you’re doing is autogenerating low-quality pages then I agree, I don’t think you’re going to make much money from those pages… that used to work a few years ago, but these days the search engines quickly drop those pages.
I did say it was a silly tool…
Eric
Nice tool, my 4000 pages translated into a mere 0.000000387396726% lol
Nice tool I own about 0.000000003389657% for my web site and i only had 35 pages hehe.
Funny to think about. Its probably over a penny a page for legit pages and like a hundredth of a penny for computer generated trash.
Haha nice comments so far.
But seriously, i concur with Alex that quantity isn’t the way around. Perhaps quality and quantity should come hand in hand.
Roger
http://www.passiveadsenseincome.com
Wow. Really does make you feel like just a drop in the ocean! neat idea
i dont think having alot of pages makes our sites valuable… but if you try you can use “seo elite”.. im using it and it is useful, i think.
It really shows how well the internet is organized and yes, how huge a network, it is. Great Post!
0.000000003389601% wow thats impressive. really. one step closer to total world domination!
Makes you wonder how much content, or knowledge goes un-noticed in the chasm of the unlinked to internet?
Man, I got so much more work to do! I own WAY TO LITTLE! Thanks for the tip!
I am afraid there is no easy way to go around and compensate bad quality with many pages… but it is nice as an idea! Ann of sweet-is-my-love.com
Cool tool, my friend!
It really does illustrate the importance of optimizing the pages you DO own to BOTH search engines and human readers. The gap is getting bigger between all the pages taking up webspace and those that are actually being read and are making contributions to the internet community.
Sincerely,
Meg Meyer
http://SEOWebDesignTraining.com
I believe there are black swan websites still waiting to be discovered. What happens if, for example, there are websites with relevant and rich content but is not too popular?
I couldn’t imagine creating 10,000 pages worth of content let alone 1,000,000! 10,000 pages would take 27 1/2 years of making 1 page a day to attain – and that is just too long. You would need many different people making pages for you if you ever wanted to come close to making a million pages in your lifetime.
I have few websites but can you tell how much pages do you have per website. Thanks once again
The problem is that, when you only create pages on the internet for earning money with adsense, the internet will become a huge bin..
sad, it seems like i don’t even exist. That’s not even funny.
But thanks for letting me know. This tool is relly gonna help me a lot.
i merely own 0.003241% of google with 400 pages and you are all right, i saw only 100 pages website earning 1000’s per month its all about content not the amount of pages or we can say ‘quality over quantity’
i think quality is over the quantity.
That’s lots of fun. It is the first time I actually understand how wast the web is. I’ve always thought Wikipedia was something enormous. But then with 374,792,881 pages across all sub-domains it owns only 0.0355% of the web!
I agree with Mario – quantity over quality! How much of Digg’s percentage is mere rubbish?!?
Hahah, neat little cool. Im feeling insignificant with a 0.003451%, but my pages are good. I hope.
I always wondered how much of the internet I actually owned, and I’ve always wanted to make a tool like this.
0.000000000945394% it’s mine. Wow, websites growing rapidly…
Amazing tool. I must say it’s a pretty neat idea and has great potential.
I own very less % of web, and it’s not even worth sharing. Anyways, good luck with your tool. I like the idea and I’m going to share with some of my friends when I get some free time.
I am also of the view that more pages you have, more you earn. I have seen building good number of pages do increase adsense income infact.
Damn, that’s alot of pages now, i didn’t think it would be that much, i remember when they used to show the amount indexed, just shows you how much the internet has grown over the past years. I definitely don’t own enough of it, i better get to work!
I think you need to count how many pages you have indexed in Google. So the Yahoo site explorer will give you a more accurate number of pages you have in Google than Google’s site: command will?
this interesting calculation can be good for fun but i don’t think if you have 1million pages then you will be earning 10KUSD per month.
well the tool is interesting but i think it is not good until it is showing us the low percentage like 0.000479% so it is better for me to not know how much space i own over internet…
Hi there everyone.
Has anyone heard of Matt Law and AdSense Systems?
I joined this community a few months ago and want to know if it is legit.
He says that I can build 420 websites using his system. Also, he teaches how to build the sites called Mega Adsense Sites.
I’m guessing that it might work as I’m 3 month’s old in adsense and making about $30.00 per month using his sites. Right now I have 19 websites up and running.
Anyway, I guess we’ll see. Please let me know your thoughts on his websites.
Reference website is http://www.adsensesystems.com. Not sure if I can post it here, but if not do a search for adsense systems.
Thanks in advance,
Lexi
Well, it’s a great tools how much you own web page share over the internet. But it still no meaning that the more webs page you have can get hit a lot to make money.
I own approximately 0.000000018247134% of the web.
Amazing tool. Only just started my first ever blog and currently have 20 pages.
This equals: 0.000000001731110%
Its as this point you realise just how big the web is.
Great post had some fun with it
Ha Ha – funny tool. I own:
0.000000051904373%