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Since our domain change 7 weeks ago, there hasn’t been any real consistency to TKG.com’s MSN ranking trends. Unlike in Google where rankings disappeared or in Yahoo! where they immediately dropped then came back (some even ranking better than before the domain change).

The majority of phrases we’re tracking that were ranking 1 & 2 maintained these same rankings in MSN over the last 55 days (see table below) - neither Google or Yahoo! provided this type of ranking stability. There are a few phrases that haven’t bounced back yet, but for the most part, MSN has kept TKG.com ranking fairly well throughout the last 7 weeks of this domain change process.

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

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…

Search Engine Saturation Trends…

Search Engine Ranking Trends…
The SEs are still ranking both tkg.com & thekarchergroup.com - I’ll get this data up tomorrow

Day 9:

• TKG.com is still blacklisted; however, we’ve been communicating with the necessary folks and are making some strides in getting this resolved.

• Haven’t heard back yet from our reconsideration request (Google says this may take several weeks)

• Yahoo! & MSN rankings are holding steady

• Yahoo! is now indexing 271 TKG.com pages (up from 125 3 days ago)

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!