TKG SEO Blog

48 days after we switched our domain… TKG.com is back towards the top for some of our top referring phrases.

I know I’ve focused a lot of posts on Google recently, but I haven’t forgotten about good ol’ Yahoo! I’ve been impressed with Yahoo’s reaction to our domain change during the last 42 days & I’m pleasantly surprised to see that the majority of our Yahoo! rankings are back and some have even climbed. Once Yahoo! was only indexing TKG.com - we were back on track.

Some positive news to report on the Google rankings front. A few increases, nothing major - but its nice to see TKG.com back on the map!

Google is now indexing 130 pages, up 15 from 2 days ago.

Google’s Indexing Timeline:

As long as Google is increasing and not decreasing the number of pages in the index, I’m happy! It’s great to see that things continue to trend in a positive way…now if we could get our Google rankings back, we’d be golden.

Ok, so we’ve watched our number of pages indexed by Google fluctuate in the mid to high 20s for a few weeks now. Every now and then, bumping up to 100+. It seems consistent for a couple days now that the new domain has 115 pages in the index. Slowly but surely, content is being added.

Google’s Indexing Timeline:

We still have quite a ways to go, especially when it comes to regaining our rankings. Getting re indexed is just the beginning.

We expected this, and knew what we were getting into, but that doesn’t make it any more fun.

From what I can tell, Google has not taken a liking to our domain change. I’ll let the numbers speak for themselves…

Google Traffic

*I still need to discuss the drop in February traffic…

Google Link Popularity & Saturation

Google Rankings

Here’s a quick site migration update…..

• Google is still only indexing about 20 pages - no increase from Day 14 & still only a few more pages being seen than when Google first started indexing the site - 12 hours tkg.com was off the blacklist!
• Yahoo! link popularity is still climbing, now at 548
• Google appears to only be indexing www.tkg.com pages now; however, I am noticing instances where PDF’s on thekarchergroup.com domain are still ranking
• Yahoo! is still ranking both domains
• As mentioned on Day 19, MSN is now only ranking the new tkg.com domain
• Yahoo! is now indexing 631 tkg.com pages - 225 pages away from our original benchmark

19 days after the domain migration…

1. MSN is no longer ranking thekarchergroup.com; Yahoo! & Google still are

2. Search Engine rankings continue to fluctuate in MSN, Yahoo! & Google

3. Google is still only indexing 20-some pages of tkg.com

4. Traffic to the site is holding steady; Google continues to supply the majority of SE traffic

5. Yahoo! is now indexing 584 tkg.com pages; up from 487 on day 14 (5 days ago)

I’m still tracking! Here’s a mini-update, 14 days after the domain migration….

1. Search Engine rankings continue to fluctuate in MSN, Yahoo! & Google; SEs are still ranking both thekarchergroup.com & tkg.com

2. Google is still only indexing 20-some pages of tkg.com (up by only a handful in the last 4 days)

3. Traffic to the site is holding steady; Google continues to supply the majority of SE traffic

4. Yahoo! is now indexing 487 tkg.com pages; up from 125 on day 6 (8 days ago)

5. Google Webmaster Tools is now reporting that Google is indexing the site (5 days after the site was already being indexed by Google)

The numbers below represent our Search Engine rankings today vs the benchmark rankings we took before the site migration. A few things to note about these numbers:

1. MSN, Yahoo! & Google are still ranking both thekarchergroup.com & tkg.com; the numbers below represent only the tkg.com rankings

2. A handful of phrases are ranking solely because of my previous Search Engine Rankings Benchmark post - these will eventually go away and rankings will settle based on where actual content is within tkg.com and not just because the phrase was mentioned within a post