During this whole domain change process (since April 30th), we have experienced some trying times with Google…First we found out that TKG.com was blacklisted and then our Google rankings disappeared and we had to deal with Google taking over a month to index just 25% of the pages on TKG.com – Nevertheless, Google has continually supplied the majority of Search Engine traffic to TKG.com every month this year!

Google is now indexing about 146 pages, up 16 pages from nearly 3 weeks ago. The last month has been slow and steady. It’s been 47 days since TKG.com was removed from the blacklist and being indexed by Google – I’m actually shocked that Google isn’t indexing our entire site already.
Prior to switching domains, thekarchergroup.com had 425 pages in Google’s index. Since then, we’ve probably added about 25 pages to our site…
TKG.com is still hundreds of pages away from being fully indexed by Google.

Google’s indexing timeline:

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.

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