Rankings Improve But Not Traffic - Google Throttling?

[dsampaolo]

Hi everyone.

(this is my first post after years silently reading WMM - sorry about my bad english)

I'm very interested in "Google Throttling" as described here : [webmasterworld.com...]

I'm working on a french site about real estate; rankings are getting better every week but the overall traffic don't really increase.

By any chance, did someone find something interesting about ways of removing such "ceilings" in traffic ? I tried to add as many editorial links as possible (especially on old, trustworthy domains).

Do any of you think it can be ads-CTR related ?
Any other leads ?

Thanks a lot :)

[tedster]

Welcome out of "lurking" mode, dsampaolo

Do any of you think it can be ads-CTR related

I'd rule that idea out.

First, you might want to check some of the other discussions about throttling. The community is not clear about what this is, or even whether it is what we suspect it is. The one that's still current is this: Google Traffic Throttling - revisited [webmasterworld.com] You'll see that it's a difficult thing to pin down and study with any real discipline. Several of us are working on it.

Have you been able to verify that your rankings are going up for other users in other locations? that is, you're sure it's not just the results that you see on your computer?

[karkadan]

Are you sure you are not logged into your Google account (gmail, adsense, analytics).

Your site appears to improve ranking sometimes when you are logged into your personal Google account.

[dvduval]

I would say getting links on authority sites that are clearly placed there by the authority site would be one of the best ways. Getting links that anyone can get (posting on forums, commenting on blogs, adding more links to websites they own) will have less of an effect on the ceiling.

The above is my theory anyway.

[dsampaolo]

@tedster : Yep, I even checked the ranking with proxies : it seems that the site is sometimes "burried" in the SERPs, this seems to be a cycle, but not hour-related. I couldn't really determine a pattern. IE, a certain kw can bring up to XX visitors in a day, and then disappears from the SERPs => it seems to just work as a "capping". (Yo-yo effect)

@dvduval : I read that too. Your "theory" seems interesting, and I should give it a try.

I'll try to improve my site's performance too (another idea...) and keep you informed.