Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Do you think Google have a filter to not push very hard or to not give very lot of traffic to a site in a very short time ? To mantain the traffic rate with some stability to help webmasters keep going with ther sites ?
I see a wide range of data pretty regularly, both new and established sites, and if this is an intentional limit or throttling of traffic from Google, it would have to be limited to some special condition or other.
We've already established that Google has some kind of "yo-yo" technology going on where a url shows up on page one of a certain query for a while every day and then gets sent to lower pages. What hasn't been established yet is whether that is for a set time period, or a set number of clicks.
So maybe you can watch your rankings and your server logs to see if you have a keyword that is being yo-yo'd.
my traffic is increasing constantly (slowly but is growing)
Then I'd say all is well :)
A typical new site (of reasonable 'quality') tends to pick up instant niche traffic when it's indexed and if the construction is OK, this increases over time. Most commonly, the effect can be attributed to a slow increase in incoming links, as more people become aware of the site.
I don't believe that the effect you see is intentional - it isn't a 'throttle'. But a new site launch without any promotion is likely to see slow growth even if you discount Google's algorithm. So, you promote the site to speed up the growth :)
What hasn't been established yet is whether that is for a set time period, or a set number of clicks.
In the instances I've seen, there is neither a consistent time period or number of clicks for the "now you see it now you don't" results. I think there's a different variable involved.
