🔗 Link Building A Quarter of all Webpages disappeared between 2013 to 2023

[SallyJames]

Really interesting research from the Pew Research Center

Quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 213 and 2023 are no longer accessible. This is because the page was deleted or removed. How does that compare to your site?

From sites in 2013, up to 38% of all webpages are no longer accessible.

 

[Ravenfreak]

This reminds me of a thread I created about a month ago that talks about link rot. https://admin-junkies.com/threads/link-rot.6644/
It does make you wonder... what's going to happen to the internet in another decade? I wonder if the Dead Internet Theory will come true...

 

[Cory]

I suppose this is heavily related to the dependence on mobile apps rather than websites.

 

[JoshB]

You can add the effects of AI scrapping sites for search results, letting the user never have to visit the site at all.

 

[Nomad]

Disappeared from where? From search engine index or from the web? These are two things. Search engines can re move links form index for various reasons, and when the owner of site decides to shut down, the site will no longer accessible. More than 100 links from my own websites no longer exist as the wenbsites were shut down or the webpages were deleted.

 

[otis booard]

webs.com is on that list, i was hoping to make some money from that

 

[joelr]

This reminds me of a thread I created about a month ago that talks about link rot. https://admin-junkies.com/threads/link-rot.6644/
It does make you wonder... what's going to happen to the internet in another decade? I wonder if the Dead Internet Theory will come true...

What's the Dead Internet Theory?

 

[Ravenfreak]

What's the Dead Internet Theory?

It's a conspiracy theory in which the internet now consists of mainly bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithms. I don't fully believe it myself, though it does seem to be true to an extent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory