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Monthly SEO Performance Report · Confidential
August 2026 Report · Progress vs July

Foothill Ranch Dentistry
Foothill Ranch, CA

Reporting period: August 1–31, 2026

foothillranchdentistry.com

339
Keywords Ranking
Semrush · ▲ 64 vs July
167
Website Traffic / mo
Organic sessions · ▼ 39 vs July
41
GBP Phone Calls
▼ 25 vs July
4.9★
Review Rating
566 total · steady
This Month's Work

What We've Done This Month

Here's the work the Dentist Nerds team completed for Foothill Ranch Dentistry in August — with links so you can review each item directly.

Blogs Completed 3 new
Backlinks Added 2 new
We added 2 new backlinks this month on high-authority dental directories, all logged in the live Foothill Ranch Dentistry — SEO Tracking sheet.
View Backlinks Sheet
Technical SEO
Standard monthly maintenance: verified LocalBusiness & service-page schema, tidied internal linking across the Foothill Ranch service pages, checked Core Web Vitals, and confirmed the sitemap is submitted & clean in Google Search Console.
Tracking & Reporting
Monitored rankings and performance across Semrush (keyword position tracking), Local Falcon (map-pack grid scans), and Windsor — pulling Google Analytics 4, Google Business Profile, and Google Search Console data together so every number in this report is live and verified.
Semrush Position Tracking

Keyword Rankings

The practice's priority local keywords in Semrush, showing each term's Google position on August 31, 2026 and the change since July 31. Lower positions are better — the first few spots capture most of the clicks. Foothill Ranch continues to own the local map: 9 of these priority terms sit at #1–#3, dental implants in foothill ranch climbed into the top 5, and domain-wide the site now ranks for 339 keywords (up from 275 in July). Improving means the term moved up meaningfully; Stable means it held its position.

Search PhrasePositionChangeSearches/moStatus
dentist in foothill ranch ca#1110Stable
cosmetic dentist foothill ranch#190Stable
foothill ranch cosmetic dentist#170Stable
restorative dentistry foothill ranch#170Stable
foothill ranch emergency dentist#2110Stable
emergency dentist foothill ranch#2140Stable
dental crowns foothill ranch#2110Stable
veneers foothill ranch#270Stable
foothill ranch teeth whitening#390Stable
dentist foothill ranch ca#4170Stable
cosmetic dentistry foothill ranch#470Stable
dentist in foothill ranch#5140Stable
dental implants in foothill ranch#5▲ 270Improving
root canals foothill ranch#770Stable

Source: Semrush organic position tracking for the client's domain. Change column shows movement from July 31 to August 31. Priority keywords shown; terms ranking beyond position 25 are excluded. Searches/mo is Semrush US monthly search volume.

Local Falcon Grid

Local Map Rankings

Where the practice shows up on Google Maps across the local grid. Each circle is a geographic search point — greener is better, the blue pin is the office. Click any circle to see the rank at that point.

Keyword: dentist in foothill ranch
Grid: 11×11 · 3 mile radius
Scanned: Aug 25, 2026
vs July: ARP 2.25 → 2.13 · SoLV 99.17% → 100% (improving)
2.13
Avg Rank (ARP)
121/121
Points Ranked
100%
SoLV
121
Search Points
#1
#2–3
#4–5
#6–7
#8–9
#10–19
#20+
Not ranking
Office
Google Analytics 4 · via Windsor

Traffic to Each Page

Top pages by organic visits in August. These are the pages doing the heavy lifting for the practice.

Source: Windsor / Google Analytics 4 organic sessions per page. Bar widths are relative to the top page.

Google Analytics 4 · via Windsor

Where Traffic Comes From

How visitors found the website in August, broken down by channel. Total sessions were 994, but August saw an abnormal spike in Direct / unattributed traffic (793 sessions) — likely untagged or self-referral visits we're reviewing. Organic Search held at 167 sessions.

80% 17%

Total sessions this month: 994

Direct80%793 sess.
Organic Search17%167 sess.
Referral1%12 sess.
Other (Unassigned, Organic Social, AI)2%22 sess.

Source: Windsor / Google Analytics 4 — sessions by default channel group. The August Direct spike is under review and is not organic-search performance.

Google Business Profile · via Windsor

Google Business Profile Performance

Activity on the Google Business listing this month and the prior 5 months — calls, web clicks, reviews, and how often the profile showed up in Search and Maps.

This month at a glance

41
Phone Calls
▼ 25 vs July
566
Total Reviews
4.9★ · steady vs July
37
Website Clicks
▼ 11 vs July
819
Searches / Impr.
▲ 70 vs July

6-month trend

MonthImpressionsSearchMapsWeb ClicksCallsDirections
Mar 2026625436189487378
Apr 2026679477202446184
May 2026617377240486874
Jun 2026622406216347376
Jul 2026749473276486694
Aug 2026819530289374192

Source: Windsor / Google Business Profile insights.