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August 2026 Report

Saddleback Valley Endodontics
Laguna Hills, CA

Reporting period: August 1–31, 2026

www.sbvendo.com

175
Keywords Ranking
Semrush, domain-wide
220
Website Traffic / mo
Organic sessions (GA4)
24
GBP Phone Calls
This month
4.9★
Review Rating
201 total reviews · +7 this month
This Month's Work

What We've Done This Month

Here's the work the Dentist Nerds team completed for Saddleback Valley Endodontics in August — with links so you can review each item directly.

Blogs Published 2 new
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Backlinks Added 4 new
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Technical SEO — Maintenance
Ongoing technical maintenance on sbvendo.com this month — routine site health checks and upkeep to keep the foundation clean while the new content and listings roll out. No structural changes were needed in August.
Tracking & Reporting
Rebuilt the Local Falcon tracking grid around the practice’s actual specialties — the August baseline scanned broad “dentist” searches, which an endodontic practice was never going to win, so the campaign now scans endodontist, endodontics and root canal across a 121-point grid. We also connected Windsor to the practice's Google Analytics 4 property, Google Business Profile listing and Search Console — so website traffic and profile activity below are now live, verified numbers. Semrush position tracking went live for the practice on August 17, giving us a daily record of the practice’s target keywords from here on.
Semrush Position Tracking

Keyword Rankings

The keywords tracked in the practice's Semrush campaign for Laguna Hills, as of August 31, 2026, sorted best position first. Six of the eight sit in the top three — including root canal laguna hills and endodontics laguna hills holding #1, and root resorption in laguna hills climbing five places to #1. A status of Building means the keyword dropped more than 12 positions or isn't ranking well yet — that's where we're focusing next.

Search PhrasePositionChangeStatus
root canal laguna hills#1Stable
endodontics laguna hills#1Stable
root resorption in laguna hills#1▲ 5Improving
endodontics near me#2▼ 1Stable
endodontics in laguna hills#2▼ 1Stable
laguna hills endodontics#2▼ 1Stable
apicoectomy in laguna hills#5▲ 2Improving
emergency dentist laguna hills#17▲ 2Building

Source: Semrush position tracking, campaign launched August 17, 2026 (Laguna Hills, desktop). Because this is the campaign's first month, the Change column shows movement from each keyword's first recorded position to August 31 rather than a full month-over-month comparison.

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.

The tracking grid now runs on the practice's actual specialties rather than broad “dentist” searches. The result is a near-perfect map: #1 at 119 of 121 points for endodontist in laguna hills, and full-grid coverage on all three keywords.

Keyword: endodontist in laguna hills
Grid: 11×11 · 3 mile radius
Scanned: September 4, 2026
1.02
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
Keyword: endodontics in laguna hills
Grid: 11×11 · 3 mile radius
Scanned: September 4, 2026
1.09
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
Keyword: root canal in laguna hills
Grid: 11×11 · 3 mile radius
Scanned: September 4, 2026
6.24
Avg Rank (ARP)
121/121
Points Ranked
0.83%
SoLV
121
Search Points
#1
#2–3
#4–5
#6–7
#8–9
#10–19
#20+
Not ranking
Office

Source: Local Falcon campaign “Saddleback Valley Endodontics” — 11×11 grid, 3 mile radius, scanned September 4, 2026. This is the campaign's most recent run; the keyword set was changed from general-dentist terms after the August baseline, so these three keywords have no August comparison yet. SoLV (Share of Local Voice) weights top-three visibility, which is why root canal in laguna hills reads low despite ranking at every point.

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 — note that root resorption, root canal retreatment and cracked teeth are all pulling organic traffic, which is exactly the specialist work the practice wants to be found for.

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. Organic search brought in just over a third of all sessions this month — that is the share this campaign is built to grow.

34.5% 62.7%

Total sessions this month: 638

Organic Search34.5%220 sess.
Direct62.7%400 sess.
Referral1.1%7 sess.
Other (unassigned, AI assistant, social)1.7%11 sess.

Source: Windsor / Google Analytics 4 — sessions by default channel group.

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

24
Phone Calls
Level with last month (24)
+7
New Reviews
201 total · 4.9★ · all 5★ this month
52
Website Clicks
▼ 7 vs last month
90
Direction Requests
▲ 64 vs last month

6-month trend

MonthImpressionsSearchMapsWeb ClicksCallsDirections
Mar 202675167477772034
Apr 202666059268423252
May 202670261686461551
Jun 2026671546125511575
Jul 202669961683592426
Aug 202659850494522490

Source: Windsor / Google Business Profile insights. Impressions = Search + Maps, desktop and mobile combined.