May 29
Google’s Reaction to Our Domain Change - Day 29
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
| Jan-08 | Feb-08 | Mar-08 | Apr-08 | May-08 (to date) |
| 2,239 | *1,018 | 1,340 | 1,869 | 1,143 |
*I still need to discuss the drop in February traffic…
Google Link Popularity & Saturation
| www.thekarchergroup.com (before the domain change) |
www.tkg.com (Day 12) |
www.tkg.com (Day 29) |
|
| Link Popularity | 113 | 0 | 0 |
| Saturation | 425 | 27 | 21 |
Google Rankings
| Phrase | Benchmark | Day 6 | Day 29 |
| akron seo | 2 & 3 | 9 | 8 |
| akron seo seminar | 1 & 2 | 1 & 2 | 1 & 2 |
| akron web hosting | 8 | - | - |
| akron web marketing | 4 | - | - |
| canton ohio web design | 6 & 7 | 8 | 8 |
| canton search marketing | 1 & 2 | - | - |
| canton seo | 1 & 2 | 3 | 3 |
| canton server colocation | 10 | 6 | 23 & 24 |
| canton web hosting | 2 & 3 | - | - |
| catholic web design | 10 | - | - |
| cleveland seo seminar | 4 & 5 | 7 & 8 | 14 |
| cleveland web hosting | 4 | - | - |
| columbus seo | 7 | - | 28 |
| columbus seo seminar | 1 | 2 & 3 | 4 & 5 |
| cruise company seo | 3 | - | - |
| healthcare industry seo | 1 | - | - |
| manufacturer web design | 8 | - | - |
| medical office website design | 10 | - | - |
| ohio search engine optimization | 10 | - | - |
| ohio seo | 9 | - | - |
| ohio seo seminar | 3 & 4 | 8 | 8 |
| rv dealer website design | 4 | - | - |
| search engine optimization seminar | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| search engine seminar | 5 | 22 | 23 |
| seo case studies | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| seo rfp | 8 | 4 | 26 |
| seo rfp template | 5 | 19 & 20 | 7 |
| seo seminar | 3 | 9 | 10 |
| stark county website design | 1 & 2 | - | - |
| travel industry seo | 5 | - | - |
May 30th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Just out of curiosity, did you properly redirect the old domain to permanently point to the new one (301 redirect is needed)? If you did that, you should have seen no problems with Google. Just trying to help - I got to know a lot of folks from TKG when I spoke at SES in Chicago last December and enjoyed talking with them. Take care - Joe
May 30th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi Joe - great to hear from you! Yes, we implemented permanent 301 redirects when we made the switch… We’ve unfortunately had to deal with the new domain being previously blacklisted - I think this is hurting us. Thanks for the comment!