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
| Phrase |
Google Benchmark |
Current
Google |
MSN
Benchmark |
Current
MSN |
Yahoo! Benchmark |
Current Yahoo! |
| akron seo |
2 & 3 |
9 |
5 & 6 |
|
10 |
9 |
| akron seo seminar |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
1 |
| akron web hosting |
8 |
|
8 & 9 |
21 & 22 |
3 |
19 |
| akron web marketing |
4 |
|
6 & 7 |
5 |
2 & 3 |
2 |
| canton ohio web design |
6 & 7 |
8 |
19 |
29 |
1 |
5 |
| canton search marketing |
1 & 2 |
|
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
4 |
14 |
| canton seo |
1 & 2 |
3 |
6 & 7 |
13 & 14 |
1 |
3 |
| canton server colocation |
10 |
6 |
N/A |
10 |
13 |
|
| canton web hosting |
2 & 3 |
|
15 & 16 |
22 & 23 |
5 & 6 |
13 |
| catholic web design |
10 |
|
15 |
12 |
17 |
|
| cleveland seo seminar |
4 & 5 |
7 & 8 |
1 & 2 |
6 & 7 |
5 & 6 |
13 |
| cleveland web hosting |
4 |
|
26 |
|
5 |
|
| columbus seo |
7 |
|
8 |
17 |
19 |
|
| columbus seo seminar |
1 |
2 & 3 |
4 & 5 |
4 & 5 |
1 |
1 & 2 |
| cruise company seo |
3 |
|
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
49 |
1 |
| healthcare industry seo |
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| manufacturer web design |
8 |
|
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
17 |
|
| medical office website design |
10 |
|
N/A |
|
N/A |
|
| ohio search engine optimization |
10 |
|
3 |
|
27 |
|
| ohio seo |
9 |
|
5 |
|
10 |
17 |
| ohio seo seminar |
3 & 4 |
8 |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
2 |
6 |
| rv dealer website design |
4 |
|
3 |
|
N/A |
|
| search engine optimization seminar |
1 |
6 |
1 |
|
19 |
16 |
| search engine seminar |
5 |
22 |
1 & 2 |
5 |
7 |
6 |
| seo case studies |
8 |
5 |
4 |
10 |
N/A |
|
| seo rfp |
8 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
| seo rfp template |
5 |
19 & 20 |
6 |
6 & 7 |
2 |
4 |
| seo seminar |
3 |
9 |
2 & 3 |
3 |
7 |
15 |
| stark county website design |
1 & 2 |
|
N/A |
9 |
11 |
11 |
| travel industry seo |
5 |
|
7 |
12 |
N/A |
|
It’s been nearly 2 weeks since we migrated to TKG.com and I’m seeing that things are starting to “shake out”…
Link Popularity Trends…
| Link Popularity |
www.thekarchergroup.com
(before the switch) |
www.tkg.com
(12 days after migration) |
| Google |
113 |
0 |
| Yahoo! |
2,204 |
438 |
| MSN |
299 |
126 |
Search Engine Saturation Trends…
| Search Engine Saturation |
www.thekarchergroup.com
(before the switch) |
www.tkg.com
(12 days after migration) |
| Google |
425 |
27 |
| Yahoo! |
856 |
439 |
| MSN |
2,820 |
307 |
Search Engine Ranking Trends…
The SEs are still ranking both tkg.com & thekarchergroup.com - I’ll get this data up tomorrow
It’s day 10 and roughly 12 hours since tkg.com was removed from the blacklist…
Google is now indexing tkg.com (GWT must be delayed) - currently, Google is seeing 15 tkg.com pages - what a sign of relief. It’s not over yet…Google still has about 400 more pages to index, has to stop ranking thekarchergroup.com and *fingers crossed*, bring our site back to ranking well for some of our top referring & converting phrases…for now, I’m relieved! 
I logged into tkg.com’s Google Webmaster Tools account this morning and found that we’re still not showing up…
Last night around 6:30pm we were informed that our domain was being removed from the ws.surbl.org blacklist…
So now what? We watch Google to see if being removed from the blacklist gets tkg.com back in Google.
It’s been 6 days since the site migration and MSN is the 2nd Search Engine to being indexing the new www.tkg.com pages (Yahoo! indexed within 48 hours; still waiting on Google).
Not only is MSN indexing the new domain, it’s ranking www.tkg.com for the following phrases: canton ohio web design; akron web hosting; canton web hosting
Did you notice that www.cantonerectors.com ranks for ‘canton web hosting’ because of TKG’s footer link that’s on their site? Nice!
We knew it was coming & it’s now its upon us - some of our phrases we benchmarked are completely off the map (in other words, we’re not ranking in the first 5 pages in Google), some have decreased dramatically, some haven’t changed a bit and some have actually increased a little bit.
Below illustrates our current Google ranking versus before the site migration began - the bolded phrases are no longer ranking in Google, no longer driving traffic and no longer converting visitors 
| Phrase |
Google Benchmark |
Current Google |
| akron seo |
2 & 3 |
2 & 3 |
| akron seo seminar |
1 & 2 |
4 & 5 |
| akron web hosting |
8 |
6 & 7 |
| akron web marketing |
4 |
27 |
| canton ohio web design |
6 & 7 |
7 |
| canton search marketing |
1 & 2 |
1 & 2 |
| canton seo |
1 & 2 |
1 |
| canton server colocation |
10 |
12 |
| canton web hosting |
2 & 3 |
6 |
| catholic web design |
10 |
10 |
| cleveland seo seminar |
4 & 5 |
4 & 5 |
| cleveland web hosting |
4 |
21 |
| columbus seo |
7 |
3 |
| columbus seo seminar |
1 |
9 |
| cruise company seo |
3 |
3 |
| healthcare industry seo |
1 |
1 |
| manufacturer web design |
8 |
|
| medical office website design |
10 |
|
| ohio search engine optimization |
10 |
43 |
| ohio seo |
9 |
10 |
| ohio seo seminar |
3 & 4 |
3 & 4 |
| rv dealer website design |
4 |
|
| search engine optimization seminar |
1 |
9 |
| search engine seminar |
5 |
|
| seo case studies |
8 |
1 |
| seo rfp |
8 |
|
| seo rfp template |
5 |
|
| seo seminar |
3 |
17 |
| stark county website design |
1 & 2 |
25 & 26 |
| travel industry seo |
5 |
7 |
I stand corrected…
In my post earlier today, I mentioned that www.tkg.com was not ranking yet - after additional research by our awesome SEO interns, we found that for some of the phrases I mentioned in my Search Engine rankings benchmark post, both the new & old domains are ranking in Yahoo! This gives us more ‘real estate’ in the SERPs (see image below) which is great for us now - but I know this will all end once everything shakes out. Hopefully we can gain additional traffic from Yahoo! while both domains are ranking..I’ve checked and so far, Yahoo! isn’t supplying any more traffic than it used to.
