Sandboxed or Impression Capped
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Hi All,
OK, we seem to be struggling to break through a Google glass ceiling which is limiting our organic search impressions.
The site launched in Nov 2012 and we plodded with very little organic traffic until the end of January 2013 when organic traffic slowly started to rise. All was great and we knew we were in for the slow but steady build of organic traffic.
However since early March 2013 we have reached a very consistent Plateau of around 5,500 organic impressions per day and we simply cant seem to get past it. CTR has stayed relatively stable and clicks match impressions quite consistently.
Could this be Google sandbox in operation or more a lack of reputation?
For information we have an SEOmoz Domain Authority of 23, MOZRank of 3.19 and MOZTrust of 3.21.
Your thoughts would be very much appreciated?
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Good thought - We use Microsoft Azure which is both unlimited and pay as you go so I don't think that's an issue. Also I assume impressions are not real time linked to the site, so even if the site did throttle clicks, the Google impressions count would not be effected.
Also where we have driven non organic search traffic to the site the number of visitors has increased, but again impressions remains steady.
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Are you on a host that offers "unlimited bandwidth" but then has some hidden throttles to limit your resource use?
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