I think it's true/real that the success of my website is all in my hands.
But I did just have an interesting thought :
Scenario :
If you owned a pipeline that allowed gold to flow thru it and anyone could get
on either end of the pipe line and either send or recieve gold;
would you attempt to control the flow of gold in order to demand a bigger cut?
And would you take your time setting it up, even if it took years because you
wanted to make sure there was no way out except through you?
How much time would it take?
1994 to 2012/2013/2014/etc...?
Are we naive to believe that our websites will always be directly accessible without going
through the "middle man" first?
Sounds rediculous to me because it would ruin what the internet should be.
But what
if it turned out
someday that a list of 10k websites produced 90% of all internet
revenue; would it make sense to keep those sites in high traffic numbers to insure
the viability of the internet?
Would those 10k sites then get "premium service"
thus leaving other sites so deep in the dark that they are worthless?
We already have "link popularity" :
Translation : If you have traffic then google sends you more.
We already have the drop-down search suggestion box where the surfer starts
out looking for info on your site (thehunger.com) but is interrupted with a suggestion
of "thehun.com". Translation : "Stop typing and click here".
This post is not about google; but I'm using google because they are leading the
way here.
Are we naive to think that the internet will never meet "Hollywood"?
By that I mean anyone can buy a camera and make a movie but ony a handful
of players will ever get into the mix at the theater.
Hollywood trash cans are full of scripts that would have been the greatest film of
it's time. Could that be the path of websites?
Pay to play; balance due = $xxx,xxx.00 ; fee waived for "premium sites".
Gloom and Doom!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sky is falling........again!!!