As someone who has worked mighty hard to get a site up to 30,000 visitors per month, I applaud and appreciate the massive effort required by Microsoft, Google and all the other big Internet guns that yields them one hundred million plus visitors every month. For December 2011 Google sites had a total of 187 million customers and Microsoft had 177.
For all of the talk about mighty Facebook, the social network came in fifth place for the December race. These numbers are based solely on US results but do extrapolate in Google’s favour around the globe. Pushing the number of unique visitors to a website up into the millions must surely be the dream of every SEO guy on the planet. In the case of Microsoft, they had quite a leg up in the form of Windows and Internet Explorer. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started from scratch as did Facebook.
One nice thing about the Internet and IT work in general is that should you (or I hopefully) hit upon an idea that the public embraces we can zoom right to the head of the class and reap substantial rewards. Yes, there are quite a few bad guys wearing black hats cutting to the front of the line, but even without cheating the game, it is still possible to join the ranks of the Internet elite. Ask Mark Zuckerberg about this.
So as you layout your SEO strategies for 2012, bear in mind that innovation could very well place you in that select group of web developers and optimisers whose sites surpass one million visitors monthly.
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