Reporting period: August 1–August 31, 2026
Here's the work the Dentist Nerds team completed for Rod Gleave, DMD in August — with links so you can review each item directly.
The tracked keywords already holding a position in Google's top 100, as of August 31, 2026, sorted by best position. Position Tracking went live on August 12, so this is the practice's first ranking snapshot — and all four terms moved up or entered the top 100 inside those first three weeks. A status of Building means the keyword dropped more than 12 positions this month or isn't ranking well yet — that's where we're focusing next.
| Search Phrase | Position | Change | Searches/mo | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| veneers in salt lake city | #31 | ▲ 7 | 20 | Building |
| veneers salt lake city | #34 | ▲ 1 | 70 | Building |
| dental implants in salt lake city | #36 | ▲ New | 260 | Building |
| teeth whitening salt lake city | #37 | ▲ New | 210 | Building |
Source: Semrush Position Tracking (Salt Lake City, UT), campaign live since August 12, 2026 — so the Change column shows movement from August 12 to August 31, and “New” means the term entered the top 100 during that window. Searches/mo is Semrush U.S. monthly search volume. The other 10 tracked terms — including dentist salt lake city, dentist near me and emergency dentist near me — are not yet inside the top 100 and are the focus of next month's content and link work.
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.
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 landing page. Bar widths are relative to the top page. Eight /salt-lake-city-ut/ treatment pages — gum reshaping, sedation dentistry, single dental implants, sleep apnea, smile makeover, teeth whitening, TMJ treatment and zirconia implants — each pulled their first organic session this month, which is exactly the pattern we want to see before those pages start compounding.
How visitors found the website in August, broken down by channel. A healthy mix with strong organic search is what we're building toward.
Total sessions this month: 1,354
Source: Windsor / Google Analytics 4 — sessions by default channel group. August 2026 is the first full month of data in this GA4 property. The very large Direct share is a tagging artefact rather than real behaviour — untagged and misattributed visits are landing in Direct — and correcting that attribution is on the technical list for September, which will also make the organic share read truer.
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
6-month trend
| Month | Impressions | Search | Maps | Web Clicks | Calls | Directions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 2,003 | 1,812 | 191 | 41 | 45 | 71 |
| Apr 2026 | 2,212 | 2,029 | 183 | 48 | 56 | 68 |
| May 2026 | 2,229 | 2,060 | 169 | 43 | 56 | 98 |
| Jun 2026 | 2,224 | 2,016 | 208 | 40 | 50 | 55 |
| Jul 2026 | 2,322 | 2,152 | 170 | 41 | 58 | 52 |
| Aug 2026 | 2,370 | 2,183 | 187 | 40 | 41 | 88 |
Source: Windsor / Google Business Profile insights.